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THE TERNATESE LANGUAGE
came the Lieutenant-Adjutant Tamadi, the Lieutenants Kamis and Mohamad, and a sarjeti
carrying the flag, with a sergeant on each side, all three wearing swords hanging from their
belts. While the drum and fife were playing, they marched up and halted underneath the
balcony. Not until the large company turned out did the upas garnati ahi enter, twenty-six
in number, together with four halberdiers from Sula and a piper, the head of the drummers,
the Alferes Berhan, and the upas garnati salakah, thirteen in number, under the command
of the Lieutenant-Ngofamanyira. These all lined up, as is customary, to pay respect. The
large company and two musicians did not go down but waited for the honors to be paid
beneath the balcony, under the command of the Major, who marched the company up and
then returned alone to the big gate to go down together with the nobles and bobatos for the
installation of the Sultan. After the decree had been read, he returned and waited for the
command to pay honors to the [p. 234] Sultan beneath the balcony. When he went down,
the Kapita-Kie and the officers remained with the battalion at the big gate to supervise the
battalion.
At half past ten the Imam-Secretary Abdul Ajij and the Sahbandar-Khatibi-Jurtulis
Sau first took the kabesaran (high-ranking people) down, preceded by guards wearing
helmets of tortoise shell. The kabesaran-kie was led by the children of the bobatos of Soah
Sio and of the Sangaji, supervised by the Marinyo-Kie Sabda and two persons with silver
trumpets and two sticks with silver knobs, these items being carried by the youths from the
kampongs. Then came the sosebas and jurtulises, then the four high sunscreens, carried by
the children of the bobatos of Falarah, who were dressed in turbans of the type worn by
young men, and white kabayas, with a cloth tied around the body⎯in this manner they
were taken down. When they had returned, four young sosebas took the royal sunscreeens.
The pinang box, the spittoon, and the fan were carried by the jurtulis, and the empty
carriage of the ruler was drawn by twelve people from Heku, dressed in blue kabayas, violet
head shawls, and white trousers. There were upas salakah on both sides of the carriage,
followed by the Imam-Secretary, the Sahbandar-Khatibi-Jurtulis, and the former sosebas
and jurtulises, who all went down as far as the Soah Sio culvert. The notables and bobatos,
the princes, nobles, and officers left the big gate, and all went down. They stopped for a
short time near the mosque, where the lebes joined them. The notables and headmen
passed the gate of the mosque. When the Prince Captain-Laut came out of the palace, he
was wearing the attire of a Captain-Laut. At the same time the Resident had sent up eight
Javanese soldiers and a corporal from the fort to walk beside the bendi of the Prince.
When the guards arrived at the entrance of the Resident’s house, they stood in a
row, as is customary; [p. 235] the kabesaran ranged themselves in the gallery, close to the
upper end, facing downwards. The officers of the fort, the citizens, Christians, Chinese,
Makassarese, and Arabs, the militia, the guard of the garrison, and the delegates from
Tidore, consisting of the Hukum of Soah Sio, Abdul Rasid, and two bobatos, two khatibijurtulises,
and two ordinary jurtulises, and one man of their honor guard, were all waiting
at the Resident’s house. The headmen of Bacan were still down below, and the Resident
ordered that these delegates should come up as well, namely the Jogugu and Ngofamanyira
of Latah-Latah, two princes in civilian clothes, and a jurtulis.
When the kabesaran and the secular and religious leaders, princes, and nobles had
entered, the Prince Captain-Laut left and went down in his carriage from the Sultan’s
square. When he descended from the carriage, the Fiskaal received him at the bottom of
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