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TERNATE 110
SHORT CHRONICLE
1583. Babulah is taken prisoner by the Portuguese in a treacherous manner. He
dies while in transit to Goa. 22
1584. Saidudin, fifth Sultan of Ternate. 23 Born about 1563, he lives, as did his
father, in the fortress at Gamlamo. Sabadin leaves for Ambon as Salahakan.
1586. Gapi Maguna, sixth Sultan of Tidore. 24 [p. 155]
1599. The first Dutchmen arrive on Ternate on the ships Amsterdam and Utregt
under the seafarer Wijbrand van Warwijk. They reach the roadsteads of Talangami 25 on
May 22 and go ashore for the first time on June 2. 26 Frank van der Does remains behind
with five Dutchmen. 27 Mole Majimu, seventh Sultan of Tidore. 28
1601. Jacob Corneliszoon van Neck with the ships Amsterdam and Gouda in the
roadsteads of Ternate.
1602. Wolphert Harmenszoon with five ships at Ternate.
1605. Two English ships under Henry Middleton visit Ternate and Tidore. The
Portuguese under Pedro Alvarez de Abreu are attacked on Tidore by the Dutch under
Cornelis Sebastiaanszoon together with the Ternatese. 29 The Portuguese are defeated and
retreat to the Philippines, permanently leaving the Moluccas.
22 [p. 154, n. 4] Tiele (TKI, V:180) is of the opinion that Valentijn made a mistake and that Sultan
Babulah died on Ternate. Locally no details are known about this.
23 [p. 154, n. 5] In Valentijn and de Jonge the name is Sahid Berkat, and in van der Crab it is
Saiudin. Robidé van der Aa calls him Sultan Berkat (Indische Gids, IV:506) and Tiele refers to him
as Sahid (TKI, VI:148) which may be an abbreviation of the name given in V:180. Van der Crab
(TKI, p. 470, n. 47) draws the wrong conclusion from this confusion of names.
24 [p. 154, n. 6] Elsewhere given as Gapi Baguna Sirajul Arafin; see further p. 151, n. 6 [i.e., note
10 above ⎯Trans.].
25 [p. 155, n. 1] Written incorrectly in Valentijn as Telingamu.
26 [p. 155, n. 2] Temminck (1849, III:126) fantasizes that the Portuguese were expelled on this
occasion, and according to the chronological list given by Keijzer, Houtman had arrived at Ternate a
year earlier!
27 [p. 155, n. 3] It appears from a letter written by Wijbrand van Warwijk that some weapons
were bartered on the roadsteads of Bantam on January 20, 1600, and that the Sultan was in debt for
212 bars of cloves (de Jonge 1872-1875, II:378). Valentijn says that the first cloves were bartered for
“small glasses” worth not more than 3 or 4 farthings.
28 [p. 155, n. 4] Elsewhere given as Molama Jimo Jumaldin. On the authority of the Portuguese
writer Argensola, quoted by Tiele (TKI, V:198), the date of his accession to the throne is given as
1599.
29 [p. 155, n. 5] Van der Lith (1875, p. 171) says that on this occasion a Spanish fortress was
assaulted, but neglects to mention from whom he got this information.
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