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TERNATE 109
SHORT CHRONICLE
1564. Alvaro de Mendoça, seventeenth Portuguese Governor-General.
1566. Diogo Lopes de Mesquita, eighteenth Portuguese Governor-General.
1569. Iskandar Sani, fifth Sultan of Tidore. 15
1570. Sultan Hairun murdered by a Portuguese in the fortress by order of de
Mesquita. 16 Babulah Datu Sah, fourth Sultan of Ternate. 17 Under this ruler the sultanate
of Ternate extends: to the south as far as Bima, to the west as far as Makassar, to the east
as far as Banda, and to the north as far as Mindanao. Rubohongi, the son of Samaraw, as
Salahakan, introduces a more regularized administration on the Ambonese islands. 18
[p. 154]
1571. Alvaro de Ataide, nineteenth Portuguese Governor-General.
1574. Nuno Pereira de Lacerda, twentieth Portuguese Governor-General. 19
1575. The Portuguese are ousted from Ternate and go to Tidore. Sultan Babulah
occupies the fortress at Gamlamo.
1579. Francis Drake at Ternate. 20
1580. Babulah conquers Banggai, Tobungku, and Buton, and even goes as far as
Makassar, where he concludes a treaty with the ruler of Goa and seizes Saleyer. 21
15 [p. 153, n. 1] Elsewhere given as Tadu Iskandar Sani Amiril Madlemi.
16 [p. 153, n. 2] Tiele’s report of this murder (TKI, IV:442) is more reliable than Valentijn’s. The
picture given by Valentijn is not very clear.
17 [p. 153, n. 3] Valentijn calls this ruler Babu or Babulak, though according to him the name, if
correctly pronounced, should be Baab Ullah. In van der Crab (1862, p. 295), Sultan Baab is the first
Sultan. According to both writers he came to the throne in 1565, which is not possible since Tiele
(TKI, IV:442) gives the day and year of the murder of Hairun. That Tidore and Bacan were
subjugated under him (see Temminck 1849, III:124) is completely without foundation.
18 [p. 153, n. 4] According to Tiele (TKI, IV:446) and Valentijn (1724, IIb:18), Rubohongi was at
Ambon in 1570. In Part Ib:207, however, Valentijn mentions 1576 as the year of this visit.
19 [p. 154, n. 1] He seems to have been the last Governor-General; later Portuguese commanders
were mere captains of the troops (see Tiele, TKI VI, passim).
20 [p. 154, n. 2] According to Valentijn (1724, Ib:207) and Crawfurd (1820, II:505), Drake arrived
at Ternate about 1578. The source quoted by Veth in Wallace (1870-1871, II:14, note 7) is more
reliable, however, and he gives November 4, 1579, as the date of Drake’s arrival (cf. also Tiele TKI,
V:164).
21 [p. 154, n. 3] According to European writers he was called “Lord of the Seventy-two Islands”
after this conquest. Nothing is known about this on Ternate.
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