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TERNATE 133
SHORT CHRONICLE
1864. After the rorehe expeditions are cancelled, the Ternatese serving on board
return from Menado. 34
Severe earthquake and undersea quake in New Guinea; Dore and Mansinam destroyed.
[p. 184] Fort Toloko, north of the capital Ternate, is disarmed due to deterioration.
1865. Death of Sultan Akhmad Safiudin of Tidore (November 29).
1866. Ternatese and Alfuru auxiliary troops sent to Ceram; the expedition is said to
be completely successful. 35
The military establishment at Dodinga is withdrawn. 36
Dissolution of the Government of the Moluccas; Ternate becomes an independent residency.
1867. M.H.W. Nieuwenhuijs, fifteenth Resident of Ternate (March).
Johar Alam, twenty-fourth Sultan of Tidore (August). 37
Several places in this region are stricken with smallpox and enteric fever (December).
1868. The sale of salt on behalf of the Government at the capital Ternate is stopped
(February).
1869. D. Boes Lutjens, sixteenth Resident of Ternate (May).
34 [p. 183, n. 4] Beginning in 1777, the Sultan of Ternate had to supply one hundred and fifty men
for the rorehes in the residency of Menado, namely one hundred from Makian and fifty in rotation
from the villages of Loloda, Gamkonora, Kau, and Tubaru. This obligation was revoked by
Government decree of October 17, 1863, no. 41, which also ended the annual subsidy of f 800 to the
Sultan at the Government’s expense as a compensation for the loss of the services of his subjects.
35 [p. 184, n. 1] For help rendered in this expedition, Prince Mohamad Yasin received the Military
Order of William Fourth Class; the Hukum Soahsio [as corrected in Errata ⎯Trans.] of Ternate a
gold medal; the Sangaji [as corrected in Errata ⎯Trans.] of Limtohu a silver medal; the captain of
Galela (named Bualemo), Lieutentant Dulhaji, and the Jogugu of Gamkonorah [as corrected in
Errata ⎯Trans.] (named Kamar), a bonus of f 300 each; Lieutenant Musa a bonus of f 200; and the
Galelarese Libacina, who became disabled because of his wounds, a stipend of f 6.- per month.
36 [p. 184, n. 2] For more than a century there had been a fortress there with a garrison
consisting of a corporal and six men. The fort was disarmed and has since fallen into ruin. Later a
postholder lived there, but he has since been stationed elsewhere.
37 [p. 184, n. 3] The decree of appointment is dated June 8, no. 2 (not November 13, as stated in
Haga 1884, II:5), but the inauguration did not take place until August 26. The contract can be found
at the back of Vol. II of Haga’s Nederlandsch Nieuw-Guinea (1884), but the copy used by Haga seems
not to have the signature of the Sultan and the great seal. Ordinarily this Sultan was known as
Sultan Akhmad, the name he had had as a prince.
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