OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

Entry record from de Clercq (1890): Ternate

Page number: 252

baru-baru

•  soldiers of the Sultan, who form one company of more than one hundred men under ten or more officers(eng).soldaten van den vorst, die één kompagnie vormen van ruim 100 man onder 10 of meer officieren(nld).

Note: Campen erroneously calls them orang baru which was then copied by de Hollander.