[65] Veth (3), vol. i. pp. 245, 284. [↑]
[66] Raffles, vol. ii. p. 316. [↑]
[67] Veth (3), vol. i. pp. 285–6. [↑]
[68] Veth (3), vol. i. pp. 305, 318–9. [↑]
[69] A traveller in Java in 1596 mentions two or three heathen kingdoms with a large heathen population. (Niemann, p. 342.) [↑]
[70] Raffles, vol. ii. pp. 132–3. [↑]
[72] L. W. C. van den Berg (1), pp. 35–6. C. Poensen, pp. 3–8. [↑]
[73] De Barros, Dec. iii. Liv. v. Cap. v. pp. 579–80. Argensola, p. 11 B. [↑]
[74] At this period, the Moluccas were for the most part under the rule of four princes, viz. those of Ternate, Tidor, Gilolo and Batjan. The first was by far the most powerful: his territory extended over Ternate and the neighbouring small islands, a portion of Halemahera, a considerable part of the Celebes, Amboina and the Banda islands. The Sultan of Tidor ruled over Tidor and some small neighbouring islands, a portion of Halemahera, the islands lying between it and New Guinea, together with the west coast of the latter and a part of Ceram. The territory of the Sultan of Gilolo seems to have been confined to the central part of Halemahera and to a part of the north coast of Ceram; while the Sultan of Batjan ruled chiefly over the Batjan and Obi groups. (De Hollander, vol. i. p. 5.) [↑]