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Further to my communication of 31 December last, Dir. Pol., N° 14605, I have the honour to inform you that after what I have just heard from the Minister of Colonies who has received on the 12th of this month a telegraphic despatch from the Governor-General of the Netherlands Indies to the effect that the Resident of Ternate has returned from New Guinea and has stationed an official (posthouder) at Silaraka with an adequate police force and necessary provisions. According to this despatch, the Resident has been very well received by the people whose disposition appeared excellent to him and who did not give him the impression of being given to piracy since they possess only a small number of weapons and have nothing but canoes (“prauws”) scarcely suitable for sea navigation; it thus appears improbable that the natives could undertake long trips. Moreover, the coast to the east of Silaraka is uninhabited.
Netherlands Ministry of Foreign Affairs, Archives. Doss. A-110 (Nieuw-Guinea). This document is based on the manuscript which was sent by Van Tienhoven to the Minister of Colonies. For copy of the final version see Commonwealth Archives Office, CP 1 (Colony), series 5, vol.10, pp.49–50.
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van der Veur, P.W. (1966). Dr G. van Tienhoven to Sir Horace Rumbold. In: Documents and Correspondence on New Guinea’s Boundaries. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-3706-3_36
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