Credit to: FB Kesultanan Terengganu Islamiah Melayuwiah
Deskripsi :
Captain Alexander Hamilton berbangsa Scotland merupakan antara peneroka (explorer), pelayar dan pedagang terawal dari British East India Company yang melaporkan persinggahan beliau di Trangano sekitar 1719 -1721.
1719 – 1721 merupakan tempoh masa yang agak kabur kerana tidak pasti siapakah Penguasa/Pembesar ataupun wakil kerajaan yang ada di Trangano. Sultan Abdul Jalil Riayat Syah (1719 -1721) menjadikan Trangano sebagai lokasi bermastautin seketika dengan berstatus sebagai “pelarian politik” dari Kesultanan Johore & Pahang apabila di tewaskan oleh Raja Kecik dari Siak yang berjaya menuntut takhta kerajaan.
Berdasarkan dari laporan Captain Alexander Hamilton, terdapat seorang pembesar begelar Dattabandaar (Datuk Bandar) namun tidak jelas dan tiada informasi lengkap siapakah individu ini di Trangano.
Bagi yang berminat, ingin mengetahui lebih lanjut dan fahami penilaian warga barat ke atas penduduk awal yang merangkumi orang melayu dan cina di bandar Trangano boleh membaca sebahagian dari petikan yang di saling sepenuhnya (ejaan dan tulisan lama Bahasa Inggeris) di bawah.
“ Trangano is the next place of note for commerce, and in Anno 1720 the place of residence of a poor different King, who by fenfelets devotion to supertition, ruin his country and his own family. I gave an account before of his brother’s tragical end, and the daring boldnefs of youth the fhewed him the way to die by his own hand, in 1719. I faw the youth waiting on the king, and fanning him with a Peacock’ Tail. In my way to Siam, I called at Trangano and went to wait on him, and he remembred that he had been acquainted with me five to twenty year before. I flaid about a week, and every day he wanted to fee me. He often repented his taking the weight of sovereignty on his shoulders and feared that his end would prove as tragical as his brother’s.”
- Muka Surat 152
"Trangano ftands pleanfantly near the Sea, on the Side of a River that has a· fhallow Bar, and many Rocks fcattered to and again within the River but Room enough in many Places to moore fmaJl Ships very fecurely, to keep them fafe from the Dangers of the Winds or Floods. There may be about one thoufand Houses in it, not built' in regular Streets, but fcattered in ten or twenty in a Place difiant a little.Way from another's Villa of the fame Magnitude. The Town is above half-peopled with Chinefe, who have a good Trade for three or four Jonks yearly, befides fome that trade to Siam, Cambodia, Tunqueen and Sambas. When I came back from Siam with my Cargo unfold, as l mentioned before, I came to Trangano to difpofe of what I could ofmy Goods, and to procure a new Cargo for. Surat, the kind King affified me in doing both, with all all the Readinefs and Cheerfulnefs imaginable.”
- Muka Surat 153
“The Hills are low, and covered with ever-green Trees, that accommodate the Inhabitants with Variety of delicious Fruits, such as Lemons Oranges, Limes Mangoes, Mangostans, Rambostans, Letchees and Dureans: And the Vallies, Corm, Pulse, and Sugar-canes. The ground is cultivated by the Chinese, for the lazy Malayas cannot take that Trouble ... The Product of the Country is Pepper and Gold, which are mostly exported by the Chinese. About 300 Tuns are the com-Chinese Pioneering 89 mon Export of Pepper and we have it almost for one half the Price that we pay for Malabar Pepper.”
- Muka Surat 156
“ However, from Pullo-capals the Bougies fent an Ambaffy to Trangano, pretending an Accommodation with the King, to fee if he would allow them to enjoy the Continent and Iflands beyond the Promontory of Romano, and they would leave him the quiet Poifeffion or the refl:; and, while they were in a large Hall conferring, fome unufual fudden Noife happened to be heard from without, which the guilty Bougies taking to be fome Defign in Execution againft them, one of them runs to the King, and creft him to the Heart, which made a very great Diforder and many were killed on both Sides ; and what Bougies remained, got on board of their Gallies, and pofted to their Fleet at Pullo-capals, with the News of what had happened at Trangano, and next Day the Bougies went into the River, and plundred the Town, except certain Houfes which belonged to the Dattabandaar, or firft Minifter, whom the King, in his Life-time, ever miftrtufted, but, by the ill Situation of his Affairs, was obliged to hide his Thoughts, and defer his Refentments till a proper Time."
- Muka Surat 158
Lakaran peta dengan bulatan warna merah memaparkan lokasi Trangano (Terengganu).
Sejarah awal di Trangano sebelum tertubuhnya Kesultanan Terengganu oleh Sultan Zainal Abidin I agak kabur dan tidak banyak rujukan ataupun bahan bacaan boleh di temui. Semoga ada yang sudi berkongsi informasi dan maklumat lebih lanjut.
Rujukan :
'A New Account of the East-Indies: Being the Observations and Remarks of Capt. Alexander Hamilton who resided in those parts from the Year 1688, to 1723, Trading and Travelling, by Sea and Land, to most of the countries and Islands of Commerce and Navigation, between the Cape of Good-Hope, and the Island of Japan. The Second Edition. Volume II.'
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