By 1938, the population of Makassar had reached around 84,000 – a town described by writer Joseph Conrad as "the prettiest and perhaps, cleanest looking of all the towns in the islands".
到1938年，望加锡的人口达到84,000人，作家约瑟夫·康拉德描述望加锡是“最漂亮，也许是岛上看起来最干净的城镇”。