On the fifth of November we cast anchor before ternate, and had scarce arrived when the viceroy of that place, attended by the chief nobles, came out in three boats, rowed by forty men on each side.
"In the Days of Drake"
J. S. Fletcher
The king of ternate had, in his immense seraglio, a hundred women in the capacity of wives, and seven or eight hundred in that of concubines.
"A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 5 (of 10) From "The Works of Voltaire - A Contemporary Version""
François-Marie Arouet (AKA Voltaire) Commentator: John Morley Tobias Smollett H.G. Leigh
Please to observe that the island of ternate is two leagues across.
"A Philosophical Dictionary, Volume 5 (of 10) From "The Works of Voltaire - A Contemporary Version""
François-Marie Arouet (AKA Voltaire) Commentator: John Morley Tobias Smollett H.G. Leigh