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TERNATE 130<br />
SHORT CHRONICLE<br />
Repeated piracies in the Banggai archipelago and on the east coast of Celebes. Revius is<br />
sent there to take stock of the situation. He proposes to set up a station in the Salampe<br />
area of the Bay of Tomori.<br />
1851. C. Sluijter is inaugurated as sixth Resident of <strong>Ternate</strong> on February 12. 23<br />
[p. 180]<br />
Alleged claims by Boni to the possessions of the Sultan of <strong>Ternate</strong> in Banggai and<br />
Tobungku are dismissed by the Government as illegal.<br />
Resident Sluijter is transferred to Banda.<br />
W.L. van Guericke, seventh Resident of <strong>Ternate</strong> (October).<br />
1852. Jhr. C.F. Goldmann, eighth Resident of <strong>Ternate</strong> (June).<br />
H.M. steamer Vesuvius, commanded by P.A. Matthijsen, with the Assistant-Resident C.<br />
Bosscher on board, is sent to Banggai and Tobungku to inaugurate the newly appointed<br />
Rajahs and at the same time to look for a suitable place for an establishment (November).<br />
1853. The Vesuvius returns to <strong>Ternate</strong> (January), having failed to find a suitable<br />
place for an establishment since the Bay of Tomori consists of marsh and steep rocks. 24<br />
Repeated reports concerning pirates in Moluccan waters (December).<br />
1854. The ports of Ambon, Banda, <strong>Ternate</strong>, and Kayeli are opened for free trade. 25<br />
Severe fevers resulting in death rage almost the whole year throughout the islands as far<br />
as New Guinea.<br />
1855. Pirates penetrate as far as Makian, Moti, and Mare, kidnapping many people<br />
and burning several villages (May).<br />
J.L. de Dieu Stierling, ninth Resident of <strong>Ternate</strong> (June).<br />
Severe earthquake; heavy tremors with subterranean [p. 181] noise; all Government<br />
buildings are damaged (June 14).<br />
23 [p. 179, n. 4] For succeeding Residents, it is the month in which the administration was taken<br />
over from their predecessor or the secretary, and not the decree of appointment, that is followed.<br />
24 [p. 180, n. 1] The Report on this trip was given by the Government to the Bataviaasch<br />
Genootschap van Kunsten en Wetenschappen and included in Vol. II of its Tijdschrift, pp. 63 ff.<br />
25 [p. 180, n. 2] See the statement dated June 30 (Statute Book, no. 46). Haga (1884, II:102)<br />
confuses the date of the decree of September 1853 with the date of promulgation.<br />
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