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TERNATE 126
SHORT CHRONICLE
1826. A kora-kora fleet leaves for Tobungku under the command of Lieutenant G.
Lockemeijer, captain of the H.M. schooner Daphne, and the Ternatese headman, Kapita
Laut Prince Abu Maha. The recalcitrant elements are subdued. 10
1827. Under escort by Major Kayanu, two hundred and fifty-two men, women, and
children return via [as corrected in Errata ⎯Trans.] Sailolof to Salawati, professing that
they had been forced to take refuge in Ceram because of the high-handedness of Rajah
Jailolo.
An agricultural commission is set up for Ternate (September); at the initiative of this
commission, clove and nutmeg trees, coffee, cocoa, cotton, and pepper are planted on a
small scale. 11 [p. 175]
As desired by H.M. the King, the Board of the N.H. Company sends the American ship
Logan under Captain Coffin on an expedition to the Pacific to investigate whale hunting.
The Resident of Ternate receives the order to treat the ship, upon arrival, in the same
manner as Dutch ships, with the exception that no payment of dues should be demanded. 12
1828. Articles 18, 19, and 20 of the treaty concluded with the Sultans of Ternate
and Tidore on May 27, 1824, are declared void, and the subjects of these rulers are given
the authority to sell their spices, on the explicit condition that these spices be transported
to Ternate. 13
The brig Nederland and the ship Jadulkarim leave on May 21 for Samarang with five
hundred and sixty-two Alfurus and Ternatese under a Major of the Ternatese court to serve
as auxiliary troops in the Java war. They are followed, on July 23, by the brig De Hoop
with two hundred and ninety Tidorese. 14
10 [p. 174, n. 2] From this time dates the sojourn of many refugees from the Butonese kampong of
Koloncucu in the kampong of the same name at Ternate. They wanted to return to their land in
1855 because of dissatisfaction with the Sultan’s administration. Their disputes were settled
through the intermediary assistance of Resident Tobias.
11 [p. 174, n. 3] These crops are found all over the Residency, but there is neither the money nor
the labor force to expand their cultivation.
It is odd that Temminck (1849, III:130) explains these and other measures in 1849 as
“d’avoir contribué si puissamment à la prospérité de ces parties intéressantes de nos possessions.”
12 [p. 175, n. 1] This experiment seems to have failed. I have not been able to find any record of
this ship visiting Ternate.
13 [p. 175, n. 2] The agreement concluded between the two rulers on the one hand and the
Governor of the Moluccan Islands, Dr. P. Merkus, on the other hand is dated February 19, 1828, at
Castle Oranje on Ternate.
14 [p. 175, n. 3] The Tidorese returned on June 3, 1830, with the ship Johanna Maria Wilhelmina
under Captain Ross; the Ternatese returned on June 29 with the Nawam Ali Usur and Captain K. de
Looper.
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