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SHORT CHRONICLE
A second shock on July 14, more severe than the first, results in several houses collapsing
and the death of a few people. 26
Tobelo on northeast Halmahera is bombarded by H.M. [ship] Vesuvius and set on fire
because the population refuses to hand over the escaped pirate leader Laba (July). 27
Governor-General Duijmaer van Twist vists Ternate (September).
1856. J.H. Tobias, tenth Resident of Ternate (April).
Expedition to Tomori to end the continual disputes with Tobungku; the kampongs
Ensaondau and Umasimbatu are stormed and taken (May and June). 28
Death of Sultan Akhmadul Mansur of Tidore (July 11).
1857. Akhmad Safiudin, twenty-third Sultan of Tidore (March). 29 [p. 182]
C. Bosscher, eleventh Resident of Ternate (November).
Suspension of hostilities between Tomori and Tobungku (December).
1858. Ternatese and Tidorese auxiliary troops are sent to Ambon to fight the
insurgent Alfurus on Ceram (January). They contribute much to the victory over the
rebels of Mani, Sahulaut, and Elpaputi. 30
26 [p. 181, n. 1] Bleeker (1856, I:166) seems to have doubted the severity of these earthquakes.
The report in Tijdschrift voor Nederlandsch-Indië XVII(2):415 estimates the damage at f 50,000.
27 [p. 181, n. 2] He was later captured and exiled to Benkulen.
28 [p. 181, n. 3] In the Feestuitgave (Celebration Publication), this expedition was described by
A.W.P. Weitzel, who corrupted the names of the kampongs to Usondau and Usonbatu⎯a rendering
copied by later writers out of ignorance. He does not mention that one hundred and twenty-four
men, women, and children, who had asked to be allowed to return with our troops, were given a
place for settlement near the village of Labuha on Bacan, where their descendants still live. Nor
does Veth know anything about this settlement (in Wallace 1870-1871, II:78, note 11). Van
Musschenbroek imagines that these people, who moved for fear of their headmen, were from a
garrison which had been left behind and claims, quite wrongly, that this settlement of native people
is a thorn in the side of the Government (TAG, p. 95).
29 [p. 181, n. 4] The contract concluded between this ruler and the Governor of the Moluccan
Islands, Jhr. C.F. Goldmann, was approved and ratified by Governor-General Ch. F. Pahud on April
13, 1861.
30 [p. 182, n. 1] By Government Decree of November 5, 1858, no. 23, in recognition of their brave
deeds, gold medals were given to the Government’s first native clerk of Ternate, Soleiman bin
Salahudin, brevet captain of the Ternatese militia, to the Kapita-Laut of Loloda, Soniya, and to the
Captain of Tobaru, Hadi. To the clerk of the Sultan of Tidore, Hasanudin, and to the Sangaji of
Maba, Salamudin, were given a silver medal each. Monetary rewards amounting to f 3,450 were
given to several chiefs and relatives of chiefs who had died in the war. Majors Ali of Tidore and
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