In the early days of Dutch colonial rule, officials wrote about developments in several areas in what is now
Indonesia. A sergeant was ordered to plant coconut trees and raise cattle in
Ternate Timor. The president was planning to inspect a stone fortress there, but had been ill in bed for 5 months.
On
July 11, a citizen named
Barent Steenhof arrived from
Timor with a letter from Fort
Concordia dated
June 8. Several ships arrived between
May and
July, bringing four letters from President
Maximiliaan de Jong.
The garrison at Fort
Concordia was doing well, though Captain Lieutenant
Jacob Pietersz van de Carper had died on
November 25. He was replaced by merchant
Jacobus Lijdema. Many servicemen were sick and some had died. A rebellion on
Roti island was successfully put down.
In
Macassar, King
Palacca, a Dutch ally, captured the capital city of
Tosorra in
Toadjo on
December 1 after a long siege. On
December 23, the conquered kings appeared at Fort
Rotterdam to surrender their weapons to the president. They accepted the treaties previously made with the kings of
Tello,
Goa and
Sadrabona.
The defeated rulers were fined 52,000 rijksdaalders (104,000 mas) to cover Dutch expenses. They paid 7,800 mas in gold, cash and slaves. The Raja of
Tello left for
Bima against everyone's wishes with his wife (the Biman king's daughter) and most of his subjects, leaving
Tello nearly deserted. The Dutch withdrew their troops from there. Reports suggested the Raja wasn't well received in
Bima, with the king there not even standing to greet him.