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—CELEBES. 226cultured coastlauders, -who speak or understand Malay or allied idioms, areregarded as members of the dominant Indonesian race, -n-hile the inland wildtribes, whatever their physical types and speech, are indiscriminately grouped asAlfurus. Hence this name is dropped when any of those tribes exchange theirsavage waj-s for a settled life on the coffee plantations.Many of these indigenousFig. 95.Maoassak and the South-West EEGIO^'of C'ei.ei3E3.Scale 1 : Sio.OOO.Depths,peoples betray undoubted traces of mixed descent, and individuals are often metwith the characteristic features and hair of the Papuans.One of the dominant nations are the Bugis, whose original home is thekingdom of Boni, in the south-western peninsula. From this region they havespread to the neighbouring provinces, and have even foimded settlements in manyremote parts of the Eastern Archipelago. Like their Mangkassar (Macassar) andWajo neighbours, the Bugis are of middle size, but robust, vigorous, and active,VOL. XIV.Q