OUTOFPAPUA database: Lexicons of the West Papuan language area

Entry record from de Clercq (1890): Ternate

Page number: 286

fangò

•  payment; to pay(eng).betaling; betalen(nld).

fangò gurua

•  harbor-fees(eng).havengeld(nld).

Note: This was abolished at the capital after Ternate was declared a free port in 1854; at Tobungku and Banggai they are still known as labuh batu or anchorage fees, which perhaps refers to the customary wooden anchor to which a big rock has been tied