Ceram And Amboyna

Its relief is generally hilly with mount salhatu rising.

Ceram and amboyna. The english treated as ridiculous the story that eighteen men scattered over the two islands of amboyna and ceram at the factories of amboyna hittou larica loho and cambello should dare conspire to take a fort from two hundred dutch and three or four hundred native soldiers with eight holland vessels in the harbour and they went about. Amboyna wood of great value for ornamental work is obtained from the hard knots which occur on certain trees in the forests of ceram. Printed in the ibis issue of july 1860. The incident ended any hope of anglo dutch cooperation in the area a goal that both governments had been pursuing.

They are chiefly fishermen and are said to be both more industrious and more honest than the native christians. It consists of two parts great ceram and little ceram or huvamohel united by the isthmus of taruno. It was the result of the intense rivalry between the east india companies of. The name is derived from ambon island in indonesia where much of the figured wood is believed to have been initially exported.

And for administrative purposes is assigned to the residency of amboyna being divided into kairatu or west ceram wahai and amahai the northern and the southern parts of middle ceram and waru or eastern ceram. The first person to indicate that the conspiracy hinged on the arrival of the next english ship from java was the japanese soldier who. Original pagination indicated within double brackets. Amboyna amboyna and ceram together with their servants 10 but it is argued that reinforcements would have been available when the next english ship arrived.

Most commonly this is narra pterocarpus indicus but burl sections of burma padauk pterocarpus macrocarpus are also sold under the name amboyna. Amboina massacre execution that took place in amboina now ambon indon in 1623 when 10 englishmen 10 japanese and one portuguese were put to death by local dutch authorities. 1860 editor charles h. In a suburb of amboyna there is a village of aboriginal malays who are mahometans and who speak a peculiar language allied to those of ceram as well as malay.

Extracts from letters on collecting dated 26 november 1859 awaiya ceram 31 december 1859 passo amboyna and 14 february 1860 passo. It is one of the islands of the moluccas maluku group. Ambon island is located 7 miles 11 km off the southwestern coast of the island of ceram seram. Ambon island and municipality of maluku propinsi or provinsi.

The population about 39 000 is divided into two classes orang burger or citizens and orang negri or villagers the former being a class of native origin enjoying certain privileges conferred on their.