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TERNATE 163
THE TERNATESE LANGUAGE
Secretary gave it to the Prince Captain-Laut. After the inauguration, f 330 would be
deducted each month from the normal amount until the advance had been cleared.
The same month of Dulkaidah, the first night of the moon, at six-thirty on Tuesday
evening, the Prince Captain-Laut moved into the palace with his wife Boki Cina, his elder
brother, the retired Major, the Kapita-Ngofa Janafi, the Lieutenants-Ngofa Aman,
Mohamad Daut and Alwi, the Kali Mahdum, [p. 232] the Sahbandar-Khatibi-Jurtulis
Sau, 37 and the Arab Mohamad bin Abdul Rahman Albar, as well as the princes, younger
brothers, and blood relations of the Sultan and their male and female servants. All these
people came with him, and the two brother princes went in the carriage drawn by statute
laborers.
On Sunday, the bobatos of Heku and Cim brought their attendants, young boys and
girls, and the headmen of the soahs and their wives accompanied them; but they took them
first to the Jogugu Major-Prang and he had them taken up to the paseba by a marinyo,
followed by the headmen of the soahs and their wives, so that they could hand over their
attendants to the Sadaha-Kie and the Sahbandar [added in the Errata ⎯Trans.] and the
Sahbandar-Khatibi-Jurtulis. For this purpose, Heku had provided three boys and girls,
and Cim the same number. When the Sadaha-Kie examined them it was found that there
was one girl from Ngofaudu and one boy from Labuah, and also one boy each from Cim,
Siko, and Ngofatake. In all, there were two boys and one girl missing. The Sadaha-Kie and
the Sahbandar would not accept this and sent them back to the Jogugu, who was to
complete their numbers and then take them to the paseba. When they came back to the
Sadaha-Kie and the Sahbandar, they were then handed over to the Sadaha-Kadatu, who
took them to the brother of the Sultan at the palace.
In the month of Dulkaidah, on the fourth night of the moon, on Monday, at six
o’clock, the Kapita-Kie, the Kimalaha of Tomagolah, Pé, had the pipers and drummers play
together, going from the big gate down along the main road on the sea front as far as the
boundary of the Makassarese camp, then turning landward up to the main road on the
landward side, [p. 233] going up as far as the Santosa culvert and then returning to the big
gate. The tatabuan normally kept in the big gate was taken along with the “tattoo” as is
customary, so that the notables, headmen, higher and lower officials, and common people
could be notified of the installation of the Sultan, according to custom.
At seven o’clock, the secular and religious leaders, princes, nobles, and three
Ngofangares, with their processions, stood in readiness at the big gate and at the gate of
the palace in such a way that the bobatos of Soah Sio, the Sangajis of Heku and Cim and
the headmen of the people were in the palace; the officers, princes, and noble descendants
were assembled in the big gate; the lebes, imams, and khatibis were in the big mosque; and
the sosebas and jurtulises were at the guards’ gate.
At eight o’clock the Major Putra Abdulwahab came with a large company consisting
of sixty soldiers, four halberdiers from Sula, and four from Toboko; behind the Kapita-Kie
37 [p. 232, n. 1] This Sau, who at the time performed the three-fold functions of sahbander,
khatibi, and jurtulis, later became Secretary and died in early 1887. He often gave me very good
information about the language, country and people of Ternate.
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