... Datoos , who may be called the nobility , make the greater part of the legislature . Their title is hereditary to the eldest son , and they fit in council with the Sultan . The Sultan has two votes in this affembly , and each Datoo has ...
A Voyage to New Guinea, and the Moluccas from Balambangan: Including an Account of Magindano, Sooloo and Other Islands; Illustrated with Copper-plates. Performed in the Tartar Galley... During the Years 1774, 1775 and 1776, by Captain Thomas Forrest. To which is Added a Vocabulary of the Magindano Tongue
... Datoos , of what these pretend their property . Here are also many Badjoo fish- ermen , who by their long refidence , are become vaffals of the Datoos ; but , as they were origi- nally from another country , and fpeak , befide the ...
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