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| Minahassa | 836 | 3574 | 286 | 16 |\430,941 | 436,406 |
| Gorontalo | 115 | 505 | 133 | . . |/ | |
+-----------------------+----------+--------+------+-----------+---------+---------+

The _Government of Celebes and Dependencies_ is subdivided into the
government territory, the vassal states (Boni, q.v., and Ternate), and
the federal countries. The density of population for the whole
government is estimated as 3.7 or 4 per sq. m., varying from 2.2 in
the vassal and federated states to 14.7 to 18.4 for Macassar and the
districts directly governed by the Dutch. The density of population in
districts outside the influence of European government sinks to 1 and
less per sq. m. As in the case of Minahassa, the difference must be
explained by physical and moral conditions. Two-thirds of the natives
live by agriculture, and one-third by trade, navigation, shipbuilding
and other industries. In agreement with these principal occupations,
the centres of population are found in southern Celebes, on the coast
(not in the interior plains or on the lake, as in Menado). Palos
(3000), with good port; Pare-Pare, connected by road with Lake Tempe;
and Macassar (17,925), the seat of the governor and the centre of
trade for the eastern part of the archipelago. On the south coast must
also be named Bonthain (4000); on the east coast, Balong-Nipa; and
Buton and Saleyer, seats of administration and ports of call on the
island groups of the same names.

The _Residency of Menado_ comprises three districts: Minahassa, the
little states along the north coast west of Minahassa, and Gorontalo,
including the other states of the northern peninsula lying along the
Gulf of Tomini. The density of population being calculated at about
2.7 to 3 per sq. m. for Celebes, is 16.2 for Minahassa, but only 1.5
to 2 for the Residency of Menado. Centres of population in Menado are
Amurang (3000), the seat of a Dutch controller, and a calling place
for the steamers of the Indian Packet Company; Menado (10,000), the
chief town of the residency, the principal station of the Dutch
missionaries, with a fair amount of trade, but an unsafe roadstead;
Tondano (12,000), near the lake and river of the same name, at an
altitude of nearly 2000 ft., and one of the chief centres; Gorontalo,
one of the most important towns of Celeb