"'May the Lord help you to do your duty & guide you through all the dangers by land and sea'"
In this part of the adventure, the ship is going down. This well-made ship cannot stand up to the power of the mighty ice in the Antarctic Ocean. Now they are forced to gather supplies from the sinking ship. They must now walk across the whole Continent. They have very low spirits, but the narrator points out that the group knows about a store that has food and supplies for their journey. After receiving their supplies, the sailors must now train their dogs for sledding across the ice.
"Their position was 68 [degrees] 38 1/2 [minutes] South, 52 [degrees] 28 [minutes] West--a place where no man had never been before, nor could they conceive that any man would ever want to be again."
In the morning a salvage team goes to check out the ship and the plot thickens. They have lost her, and have pretty much given up.. The ice continues to break up and the team must tear down camp and set it up many times.
This sounds like many things in America's past. For one, it is like the Revolutionary War. We were outnumbered, but we figured out a way to get past all of that. Shackleton and his crew have these little revelations like finding a seal or remembering that there was a food store nearby.
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