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SHORT CHRONICLE
1640. Anthonij Caen, tenth Governor of the Moluccas. 50
1642. Wouter Seroijen, eleventh Governor of the Moluccas.
1643. Salahakan Majira replaces Luhu at Ambon.
1647. With the help of the Company, Ternate reconquers the disloyal Gorontalo.
1648. Mandarsah, eighth Sultan of Ternate. 51 Gaspar van den Bogaerde, twelfth
Governor of the Moluccas. Eruption of the mountain of Makian on July 13. 52 [p. 160]
1651. Sultan Mandarsah goes to Batavia with de Vlaming 53 and concludes a
contract with Governor-General Karel Reinierszoon on January 31, 1652, to abolish the
proconsuls at Ambon and to extirpate the clove trees. In return, recognition money is to be
given. 54
1653. Jacob Hustaart, thirteenth Governor of the Moluccas. 55 Magiau, tenth Sultan
of Tidore. 56 Eruption of the mountain at Ternate.
1656. Simon Cos, fourteenth Governor of the Moluccas.
50 [p. 159, n. 4] Keijzer writes this name as Antoni Kaan.
51 [p. 159, n. 5] Valentijn also calls him Manlarsjah or Mandarsjah, corrupted by Riedel (1886?, p.
3) to Mandarasahang.
52 [p. 159 n. 6] This detail was listed under the year 1647 in the Tijdschrift van het Bataviaasch
Genootschap XIV:524 ff. The date is different from that given by Valentijn of 1646 (1724, Ib:90),
[note continues, p. 160 bottom] which was then copied unquestioningly by later writers. Bickmore
even adds that in 1646 all the villages on the slope of the mountain were destroyed and that the
population had been estimated at 7,000. He does not mention his source.
Whether this eruption ever occurred remains doubtful, since Valentijn would never have
neglected to mention the destruction of clove and nutmeg trees. Moreover, at Ternate there exists
neither oral nor written tradition about it as there does for the eruption which occurred in 1760.
53 [p. 160, n. 1] De Vlaming had the title of Superintendent-Commissioner and Admiral of the
Moluccas. His instructions can be found in Bokemeijer, Appendix 43.
54 [p. 160, n. 2] This contract can be found in Valentijn 1724, Ib:292. The Sultan would receive
12,000 rijksdollars annually, Prince Kalamata 500, and the other nobles collectively 1,500, while the
chiefs of Makian would be paid off in a single sum of 500 rijksdollars. The islands of Moyau and
Tofure are said to have come under Ternatese rule at about this time (Valentijn 1724, Ib:96 and
304).
55 [p. 160, n. 3] Sometimes written Hustard or Hustaard.
56 [p. 160, n. 4] In places also recorded as Saida, Sahidi, or Saidi “‘s Compagnies Recht” [“Rights
of the Company,” de Klerk et al.], p. 29; Haga 1884, I:75; Valentijn 1724, Ib:306 and 311, and Robidé
van der Aa (in van Dijk) [sic] p. 465).
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