Deeti’s husband dies and fearing what her husband’s family will do to her daughter, she sends Kabutri to live with her relatives. She never tells her daughter, Kabutri, the truth about who her real father is. Deeti discovers that she was drugged with opium by her mother-in-law on her wedding night and was raped by her husband’s brother. She is married to a crippled husband who works at the local opium factory. Aside from Burnham, he main characters who wind up on the Ibis are an ordinary Indian woman and the man who saves her from certain death, an american sailor with a secret, a disgraced Rajah, and a Chinese opium addict.ĭeeti is a housewife and mother. The ship’s new owner is Benjamin Burnham, an evangelist and a prominent player in the opium trade. A former slave-ship which was being refitted in Calcutta to accommodate the coolies who were to be transported to Mauritius, coolies being indentured laborers. The trilogy is named after a ship called the Ibis.
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