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On May 18, 1741, in Macassar, an incident was reported about people from Wajo who refused to travel to Castle Rotterdam until unfaithful contract violators were punished. Messengers spoke to the young King, arguing that disputes between Bone and Wajo should be settled between them as brothers, without Company involvement. His Highness responded that Wajo had broken this brotherhood, which was why the Company and Bone's forces had come to Chinrana to restore order. The messengers had to return with their money unsuccessful.

The people of Wajo realized the visitors wouldn't leave easily and would visit them first. To prevent this, the people from the villages of Sinkang and Tempe released many grass rafts from the freshwater lake where the Chinrana River originates. These rafts, which could hold 8-12 or more people and were normally used for collecting wild duck eggs, floated downstream. The river became so clogged that vessels were pushed backward by the current and these floating islands, causing damage. This made it impossible to travel by boat to Tosora day after day.


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Van Macasser Den 18:' meij 1741. /
die uijt dit antwoord sekerlijk wel hebben
kunnen afneemen dat wij niet geneegen
waeren zoo gemakkelijk te vertrekken,
maer haer alvorens inwadjo een visite
tekomen geeven om het welke tepreveniee„
„ren sij geene moeijte gespaert hebben, latende
door de volkeren vande negorijen sinkang
en tempe uijt het zoete meir alwaer de
revier van Tjinrana sijn oorspronk neemt
een menigte gras vlotten die op en onder
het water drijven bij na als Eijlanden
daer souwijle 8: 10: 12: ja meer menschen
opgaan, om Eijren van wilde eendvoogelen
tesoeken gelijk wij meenig maelen gesien
hebben, los maken en voorstroom
afsakken overzulx bij continuatie
de rivier ten Eenemael wierd opgepropt
waerdoor onse vaertuijgen nu en dan door
sterke persing van dese drijff landen
en stroom niet zonder schaade tever„
oirsaeken agter uijt dreeven, en het
dag aendag veel min mogelijk was de
rijse met de vaertuijgen na Tosora te
onderneemen, ongerekent de aerde schansen
die.

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National Archives / Archives South Holland, archive number 1.04.02, Inventaris van het archief van de Verenigde Oost-Indische Compagnie (VOC), 1602-1795 (1811), inventory number 8215, Kamer Zeeland, INGEKOMEN STUKKEN VAN GOUVERNEUR-GENERAAL EN RADEN BIJ DE HEREN XVII EN DE KAMER ZEELAND, Kopie-missiven en -rapporten ingekomen bij gouverneur-generaal en raden van de kantoren in Indië, Makassar, Kopie-missiven en -rapporten ingekomen bij gouverneur-generaal en raden uit Makassar, 1741 mei 18 - nov. 16



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