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SHORT CHRONICLE
1626. Ngora Malamo, eighth Sultan of Tidore.
1627. Gilles Zeijst, sixth Governor of the Moluccas. 43 Sultan Modafar dies. Rumor
has it that he was poisoned. Kaicil Hamja, seventh Sultan of Ternate. 44
1628. Pieter Wagensveld, Commissioner. 45
1629. Gijsbert van Lodestein, seventh Governor of the Moluccas. He concludes a
treaty with Sultan Hamja on August 14, which is ratified on March 1, 1630, by Governor-
General Jacques Specx. 46 [p. 159] Luhu becomes Salahakan of Ternate at Ambon.
1633. Advocate-Fiscal Antoni van den Heuvel inspects the territory of the Eastern
Governorships. Johan Ottens, eighth Governor of the Moluccas. 47 Kaicil Gorontalo, ninth
Sultan of Tidore.
1635. Jan van Broekom, ninth Governor of the Moluccas. Eruption of the mountain
of Ternate.
1636. Governor-General Antonie van Diemen visits the Moluccas. 48
1638. After van Diemen returns from Batavia to Ambon, the contracts are renewed
and confirmed on the ship Frederik Henrik, in the roadstead of Hitu. 49 The whole of the
island of Ceram comes under Ternatese rule.
transport of sago and for other goods imported, independent of the Company service, with junks,
kora-koras and other vessels. Half of this duty was for the King and the other half for the Company.
This agreement is not reported elsewhere.
43 [p. 158, n. 2] It is not clear to me how this agrees with the dates given by Valentijn, according
to whom Le Fèbre governed the Moluccas for eight years (1724, Ib:258).
44 [p. 158, n. 3] Valentijn notes (1724, Ib:281) that we do not know whether this ruler died a
Christian or a Muslim; and that priests never say a prayer for him for that reason. This is probably
the reason why his name was not on the list given to me by the Sultan.
According to Tiele, Hamja was a son of the brother of Sultan Saidudin (TKI, VI:203); this is a
mistake, however, for he was in fact the son of the brother of Sultan Babulah Datu Sah.
45 [p. 158, n. 4] Keijzer, in his chronological list, seems to ignore this interim administration
completely.
46 [p. 158, n. 5] This verbal contract is mentioned in Valentijn 1724, Ib:262 and the ratification on
p. 264.
47 [p. 159, n. 1] He became Governor of Ambon in 1637, and was the first Governor to bear the
title of Indies Council-Extraordinary. He was also the first head of government to die there and was
also buried there (Tijdschrift van het Bataviaasch Genootschap XIV:527).
48 [p. 159, n. 2] He does not seem to have visited Ternate (cf. Valentiijn 1724, Ib:269, top).
49 [p. 159, n. 3] This renewal is given in Valentijn 1724, Ib:270, dated June 20, 1638.
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