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A chain of kings
to Luwuq and took tribute from Wajoq, which was charged twenty katti.
Accompanied by the people of Sidénréng he advanced and conquered Otting,
Buluq Cenrana, then mastered Wajoq and took timbaq sareong, 54 charging
them ten katti. He then conquered Suppaq, Sawitto, and made vassals of
Letang, Duri, Panaikang, and all the Bugis. Some were made slaves. Some
were made vassals. He relocated people from Sawitto, people from Suppaq,
people from Bacukiki up to [Gowa]. He conquered Bulukumba, Ujung Loe,
Pannyikkokang, Pationgi, Gantarang, Wero, Selayar. He took saqbu katti from
the people of Bira and made vassals of those who lived in the upland mountains.
This was the karaeng who first made vassals of those he conquered. He
also made them swear oaths, saying ‘I speak and you agree’.
He too was the first to order that tumakkajannang be established for the
anaq karaeng, 55 ironsmiths, goldsmiths, builders, shipwrights, blowpipe makers,
56 metalsmiths, 57 sharpeners, palariq, 58 ropemakers.
He too separated the sabannaraq position from the tumailalang position.
I Daeng ri Mangallekana became sabannaraq (his royal name was I Kare
Manngaweang, his personal name was I Manngambari). The tumailalang was
I Daeng Pamatteq.
He too was the first to encircle fortifications; 59 to make taikang, 60 dacing, 61
[standardized] weights; to establish gantang, 62 ship tariffs of forty kakana; 63 to
clarify what would be known as a patung, the measure of a koyang. 64 He too
first placed great cannons in a row on the great fortifications. He also was
the Makassarese who first knew how to make gunpowder, smelt gold, fire
bricks. 65
Also during his reign, he made an agreement with the one who asked for
a place to dwell named Anakoda Bonang. 66 He brought to the karaeng, [30r]
when he asked for a place to dwell, these things: eighty-six blunderbusses, 67
one piece of cloth, half a score of silk, one piece of velvet. Said Anakoda
Bonang to Karaeng Tunipalangga, ‘There are four things that I ask for us.’
Said the karaeng, ‘What?’ He spoke, ‘We ask that you do not enter our homes,
do not enter our compound, do not demand payment if we have children, 68
do not confiscate our goods if we commit a crime.’ This was agreed to by
the karaeng. The karaeng said, ‘If my water buffalo is tired, I will rest it in
water. If it’s burden is heavy, I will set it down. What less could I do for my
human flock?’ Then spoke the karaeng to him, ‘You may not kill in my land
without my knowledge.’ The karaeng spoke again, ‘For which peoples do you
speak?’ 69 and Anakoda Bonang said to the karaeng, ‘All of us who wear these
sarongs.’ These were the words of Anakoda Bonang, ‘Such as Patani, Campa,
Minangkabau, Johor, Pahang.’
He was also the first to spread kompaq, 70 fashion babuq, 71 make smaller the
long shields, shorten spear shafts. He was also the first to forge Palembang
bullets. 72