Volume 2

The world in miniature / edited by Frederic Shoberl.

Date:
[1821-1827?]
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Licence: Public Domain Mark

Credit: The world in miniature / edited by Frederic Shoberl. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    or a minor is raised to the latter office, the constitution provides a guardian. The head of the confederacy cannot separate himself from his council to go on a warlike expedition, or any similar employment, without making, by a kind of fiction, a temporary abdication of the throne. In this case, he is at liberty to nominate a viceroy, who in the Bugis language is called his sulewa- tang, or proxy. The majority of the council then attend the king, and the remainder stay with his substitute to render assistance to the latter. All the governments of Celebes are formed on similar principles, but with various modifications. The most re- markable is in that of the Goa Macas- Pia