Meanwhile a petty gang of pirates, known as the Mawas of Central Kalimantan, kidnapped and enslaved him into their ship, De Groot Storm, caging him along with other wannabe pirates in the lowest bunker of that ship, where fights are common and scars are abound. But then Sandaukan's a newcomer, a wild newcomer of the bunch.

The pirates have been really dirty all day long, thus they're talking like crazy and eating uhm, bush meat. Sandokan had little of such fruit and meat available and ate them within just an hour. He had bush fruit and bushmeat even when he was a child, which means he was partly plumped up by his adoptive Mawas ape mum before she died in the hands of hunters, thus he was mourning in anger all day before his enslavement by pirates was realised with a fist.