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After a period of time in Ternate, she left and sailed southward of the Celebes where they stopped at an island and graved the ship for 26 days.
The diving is always spectacular because it has also become a Mecca for the wildlife of the Celebes Sea.
The crested black macque was called the Celebes or black ape by early scientists, because it appeared to have no tail.
It is bounded on the west and southwest by the South China Sea, on the east by the Pacific Ocean, on the south by the Sulu and Celebes Seas.
Arung Palakka, meanwhile, became the ruler of Bone, gaining control over most of southern Celebes.
Includes paintings on silk, gold and silver, ivory statues, porcelain and weapons from Siam, Laos, from Celebes, from Java, from Malacca, Singapore, China and dating mainly to the XI century.
Located at the extreme northern tip of Celebes Island, the area is a mixture of dense tropical forests and vast coconut plantations overlooked by numerous volcanoes, some still active and more than  2000 m high.
The Toraja are believed to be descendants of speakers of Austronesian languages who overran Celebes long ago and absorbed or exterminated the aboriginal population.
Located at the South Eastern coast of Sabah, about 20 minutes from Sipadan and 30-40 minutes from Semporna, lies the island of Mabul, surrounded by Celebes Seas with white sandy beaches.
For instance, a matrix of related plucked lute traditions most known by a term similar to sampé' or kacapi stretches from Sumatra through Kalimantan to Celebes.
The Celebes pig and, to a lesser degree, the anoa were the focus of the Wana's large game interests.
Pinto was bought by a Celebes merchant and resold to the King of Kalapa who returned him to Sunda.
Both countries claim ownership of the oil-rich sea block situated in the Celebes Sea which borders the Malaysian state Sabah.
Other long-faced monkeys, especially the mandrill and drill, the gelada, and the Celebes macaque, are sometimes referred to as baboons, but among these only the gelada is closely related.
Monday evening the pirates ordered them to abandon ship and put them in a life raft, which was found drifting in the Celebes Sea at the time of rescue, Balutan said.
Examples from Classical Literature
The Macassar government, including parts of the islands of Celebes and Sumbawa.
Crossing from Borneo to Celebes, there is a very great difference in the animals.
It was the hideous hammer-headed shark, the dreaded zygaena of the Celebes Sea.
And did the sultan not sympathize with him in his inability to stop this dreadful practice in the Celebes Sea?
On sped the vinta, and ever nearer came the great estuary that gave upon the Celebes Sea.
A little animal, the tarsier, which is found on the islands of Celebes and Borneo, is very exceptional in its structure.
Macasser is an island not far from Celebes, having abundance of bezoar stones, which are there to be had at reasonable rates.
Early this year a Celebes trader becalmed in a prau was watching him at it.
The Bugis are the inhabitants of the greater parts of Celebes, and there seems to be an allied people in Sumbawa.
A Malay prao had anchored for the night under an island of the Celebes.
The species is also known as the Celebes crested macaque and originates from the north east of the Indonesian island of Sulawesi.
From Java to Sumatra, Celebes and Bali, coffee plantations were spreading in the Archipelago as the European demand was growing.
Java, Luzon, and Celebes are each about equal in size to Ireland.
There are deep waters in the south of the archipelago, the north in the Celebes Sea and the western Pacific Ocean.
Because Kolaka Regency was the biggest cacao producer in South East Celebes Province.
The species of Celebes equal or even surpass in size those of amboyna.
They have thrown off the Malay yoke, and plunder as far as Celebes.
What the past fauna of Celebes may have been is as yet conjectural.
The two frigates had come round to the northern end of Celebes.
From there we could jump across to the Celebes and possibly to New Guinea.
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