De bry, johann theodor, (1560-1623) and johann israel de bry (1565-1609). Part v, plate 14, how the king of ternate presents himself in public. From the "little voyages"the king of ternate on his way to the mosquevan warwijck put in at ambon and ternate in 1599, while his colleague jacob van heemskerck sailed to banda. The print shows the procession of the king of ternate and his court on the way to the mosque, or mesquita, as the house of prayer is described in the travel journal of the trip to ternate. On the right we see the mosque, a small rectangular building with a pagoda roof consisting of three parts. The person leading the procession is a man with a goat, due to be scarified at the mosque. He is followed by a group of warriors and then a man with a thurible. Then we see the sultan, with a servant behind him holding a parasol above his head, and a standard bearer. In front of the mosque we see a pot filled with water where the mosque-goers perform their ritual washing. How the king of ternate presents himself in publicthe king of ternate is how history tells us a fat short stout man with a fat head he is very powerful has almost 70 islands under his regime if this king wants to go somewhere primarily to go to the temple a boy walks in front of him a sword on his shoulder and in the other hand a goat following by several of his body guards, behind them walks somebody that carries a seraphim box and then comes the king and somebody carrying an umbrella over his head followed by the rest of his bodyguards flying flags and in this magnificence he proceeds his way to the church to attend the mass. Date: 1601.
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