Tintin places the scroll in his wallet, but is then pick-pocketed by Silk the next morning and soon afterwards abducted by accomplices of Sakharine on the SS "Karaboudjan". Snowy chases after them, boards the ship and reunites with Tintin. Tintin learns that Sakharine formed an alliance with the ship's staff and led a mutiny to take control and imprison the captain. On board, Tintin encounters the ship's captain, Archibald Haddock, who is a perpetually drunk alcoholic and has forgotten most of his past including his ancestor's story. Tintin, Haddock and Snowy outrun the crew and escape from the "Karaboudjan" in a lifeboat, but not before Tintin radios the name of the ship's destination, Bagghar. The ship attempts to ram their boat but instead ram an empty lifeboat Haddock accidentally released during his escape. Noticing that two lifeboats have been released, Sakharine presumes them to have survived and sends a seaplane to find and capture them.