Part 3 takes place almost entirely at sea, as the varies storylines come together. He is transported to jail to await his departure, where he meets Ah Fatt, an opium addict who is to be transported with him. Neel is sentenced to 7 years of labor in Mauritius and the loss of his lands. Paulette realizes that she must escape Calcutta and the Burnhams she initially asks Zachary to get her on the ship, but when he declines, she hatches a plan with Baboo Nob Kissin instead to be brought on board disguised as a Bengali woman, under the pretense of traveling for an arranged marriage. Jodu becomes familiar with the ship and manages to gain the respect of the rest of the crew, who initially dislike him, as he is a freshwater boatman. Zachary, meanwhile, begins to ingratiate himself into gentlemanly life in Calcutta Burnham et al take a liking to him, though the first mate of the voyage dislikes him almost from the start, and nearly kills him at the end of the section. They eventually make their way to Chhapra, but after seeing Bhyro Singh and overhearing that they are being hunted, they decide to sign up as indentured servants in Mauritius to escape.

In Part 2, Deeti and Kalua continue to travel downriver, remaining hidden as much as possible.

When he refuses one final time to relinquish his lands to Burnham, Burnham brings him up on exaggerated forgery charges. Lastly, Neel Halder, the Raja of Raskhali, sees the Ibis arrive and meets with Benjamin Burnham to discuss his debts. Jodu, a Muslim boatman, returns to Calcutta to find Paulette, with whom he was raised however, when the Ibis destroys his boat, he asks Paulette to ask Zachary to get employment for him on the ship. Meanwhile, Zachary Reid joins the Ibis in Baltimore as his first voyage due to a series of mishaps, by the time he reaches Calcutta, he is the only remaining member of the original crew and the acting captain, taken under Serang Ali’s wing. However, Kalua, a low-caste ox-cart driver, saves her at the last moment, and the two run away together. Deeti’s husband is an opium addict and a member of a powerful family in the region when he dies, assuming she has nothing left to offer and concerned about her options, Deeti decides to die on a window’s pyre. Part 1 begins with Deeti, who has a vision of the Ibis while working on her poppy farm hundreds of miles inland.

Ghosh sea of poppies