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## Notes \subsection{Notes  from the Ibis Trilogy (Sea of Poppies) Poppies)}  \subsection{The purpose of Ibis the Ship}  The purpose of Ibis the Ship (pp. 12)  "One thing Zachary did know about the Ibis was that she had been built to serve as a ‘blackbirder’, for transporting slaves. This, indeed, was the reason why she had changed hands: in the years since the formal abolition of the slave trade, British and American naval vessels had taken to patrolling the West African coast in growing numbers, and the Ibis was not swift enough to be confident of outrunning them. As with many another slave-ship, the schooner’s new owner had acquired her with an eye to fitting her for a different trade: the export of opium. In this instance the purchasers were a firm called Burnham Bros., a ship-ping company and trading house that had extensive interests in India and China"  Note the nature of the ship. The point to note is how or why did the ship sail here and what drreams were sold? What were the decptions?  Lascars \subsection{Lascars  or the sea farers }  (pp. 13) "He had thought that lascars were a tribe or nation, like the Cherokee or Sioux: he discovered now that they came from places that were far apart, and had nothing in common, except the Indian Ocean; among them were Chinese and East Africans, Arabs and Malays, Bengalis and Goans, Tamils and Arakanese. They came in groups of ten or fifteen, each with a leaderwhospoke on their be-half. Tobreak up these groups was impossible; they had to be taken together or not at all, and although they came cheap, they had their own ideas of how much work they would do and how many men would share each job - which seemed to mean that three or four las-cars had to be hired for jobs that could well be done by a single able seaman"  Zachary's \subsection{Zachary's  Ignorance (pp. 14) 14)}  \begin{quote}  "once, when the serang spat a stream of blood-red juice over the rail, he noticed the water below coming alive with the thrashing of shark’s fins. How harmless could this betel-stuff be if it could be mistaken for blood by a shark?"  \end{quote}  \begin{quote}  Mark of Zachary's ignorance  \end{quote}  \subsection{Hukam Singh's Illness (pp. 22)}  Hukam Singh's Illness (pp. 22)  "Two days later, Deeti and her daughter were eating their midday meal when Chandan Singh stopped his ox-cart at their door. Kabutri-ki-ma! he shouted. Listen: Hukam Singh has passed out, at the factory. They said you should go there and bring him home. With that he gave his reins a snap and drove off hurriedly, impatient for his meal and his afternoon sleep: it was typical of him to offer no help. A chill crept up Deeti’s neck as she absorbed this: it was not that the news itself was totally unexpected - her husband had been ailing for some time and his collapse did not come entirely as a surprise. Rather, her foreboding sprang from a certainty that this turn of events was somehow connected with the ship she had seen; it was as if the very wind that was bearing it towards her had blown a draught up her spine. Ma? said Kabutri. What shall we do? How will we bring him home?"  This is a significant turn of event and note the sense of abandonment. This guy just shrugs his shoulder and passes the bad news and moves on. Then there is this tension with the charioteer who is low caste. we now get to see that circumstances are driving this family to be accosted to the ship