![]() This angers her until he confides that he hopes one day to own his own ship she tells him that the diamonds are on the island of the fire god, Vishnu. Later he must fight one of the crew to protect her honor.īoll constantly questions Kim Kim about the diamonds. The ship's crew find her there, and Boll insists that they treat her as a passenger. He informs the Dutch authorities, and they search the ship but do not find her (she is hiding on deck inside a half-filled water cask). Posing as the naturalized Dutch citizen "Saint" Ebenezer, the pirate Pulo Besar becomes aware that Kim Kim is aboard Gerrymander. Flint, the ship's first mate, finds out why Boll purchased her and threatens to turn the captain over to the Dutch if not given half the diamonds. He sends Boll to a Chinese junk captain with a captive, the woman Kim Kim, a dancer at the sultan's palace before the Chinese enslaved her she knows the diamonds' location.īoll violates Dutch anti-slavery laws by buying Kim Kim and smuggling her aboard Gerrymander. On Java, a Indonesian, whose life Boll once saved, tells Boll that native divers salvaged a fortune in diamonds from the sunken ship Pieterzoon. ![]() Facing both pirates and a Dutch trade exclusion policy preventing foreigners from carrying goods between ports, Boll looks to make a profit another way. In 1883, the Boston company that owns the merchant sailing ship Gerrymander gives her captain, Captain Boll, six months to show a profit in the Netherlands East Indies.
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