Macassar

By the name Macassar is commonly meant the Dutch fortified town of Rotterdam, on the western shore of the peninsula above mentioned; the Dutch made it a free port in 1847.

The Philippine Islands, 1493-1898 — Volume 20 of 55 1621-1624 Explorations by early navigators, descriptions of the islands and their peoples, their history and records of the catholic missions, as related in contemporaneous books and manuscripts, showing the political, economic, commercial and religious conditions of those islands from their earliest relations with European nations to the close of the nineteenth century. James Alexander Robertson 1906

We purchased in Macassar twelve dozens of barter-knives for ten rupees, and for one knife we used to get a fowl, or more often two fowls for three knives; a large fish, which was dinner for the three men and ourselves, for two knives; and ten eggs for one.

Insulinde: Experiences of a Naturalist's Wife in the Eastern Archipelago 1887

Macassar is the point from which the products of Western civilisation are disseminated through the barbarous East, and is one of the great emporiums of the native trade of the archipelago.

Insulinde: Experiences of a Naturalist's Wife in the Eastern Archipelago 1887

Add to these Swanky, called Macassar, from his partiality to that condiment, and who has varnished boots, wears white gloves on Sundays, and looks out for Miss

Dr. Birch and his young friends 2006

The area in which he was exiled in South Africa is called Macassar, named after the original place in Java in this country.

ANC Daily News Briefing 2005

He died in 1699 a defiant revolutionary, and was buried in the area in the Western Cape called Macassar, after the area in Sulawesi, Indonesia, from which he came.

ANC Today 2005

The area in which he was exiled in South Africa is called Macassar, named after the original place in Java in this country.

Reply to the toast remarks by the President of The Republic of Indonesia, Dr Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono 2005

Kalden's farm at Zandvliet, which is now called Macassar after Sheikh Yusuf's birthplace in Indonesia.

ANC Daily News Briefing 1994

He died in 1699 a defiant revolutionary, and was buried in the area in the Western Cape called Macassar, after the area in Sulawesi, Indonesia, from which he came.

ANC Today 1955

Celebes, a large, irregular island east of Borneo, includes a district known as Macassar, the ruler of which had been arbitrarily dethroned by the Dutch; and the sons of the injured monarch, taking refuge in Siam, secretly encouraged the growing enmity of the nobles against the French.

The English Governess at the Siamese Court Being Recollections of Six Years in the Royal Palace at Bangkok Anna Harriette Leonowens 1874