OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

Entry record from de Clercq (1890): Ternate

Page number: 253

Bacan

•  the sultanate and island of that name(eng).het sultanaat en eiland van dien naam(nld).

Note: This is the correct spelling, and is found in the letter of Valentijn (Ib, p. 122); I have never observed the of van der Crab (in Naidah [van der Crab, TKI], p. 462).