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THE SECOND BOOK OF SHI-TUGO
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The Second Book of Shi-Tugo opens four years after the great war that closed his first record and traces seven postwar years and beyond as Shi-Tugo, a converted Lamanite warrior dwelling among the People of Ammon, finds his life's labor redirected from the soil to the sea. Unable to prosper as a farmer and chafing under Nephite suspicion of covenant Lamanites, he is drawn first into advising Nephite captains on fortification, then into the orbit of Hagoth the shipbuilder, whose northward migrations dominate the latter half of the record. Through Hagoth, Shi-Tugo becomes a maritime explorer, charting bays along the western coast of Bountiful, organizing inland surveys, and encountering survivors of Hagoth's son's lost expedition who report a permanent settlement on a distant island.
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Around this seafaring spine the book weaves a domestic and prophetic drama. Shi-Tugo loves his cousin Hemen, daughter of the healer Hementa and niece of Cumeni, who surpasses both her elders in the healing arts. The Ammonites' refusal to release Hemen — even imprisoning her — provokes Shi-Tugo's lasting bitterness and occasions a public rebuke from Shiblon, who in his prophetic office names Hemen a prophetess and commands that her arts be taught broadly.
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The book's central themes are displacement, vocation, and the gathering of covenant peoples northward in anticipation of Nephite decline. Within the record of the Nem, it stands as a firsthand Lamanite witness to Hagoth's migrations and to the ministry of Shiblon.
