"Monday April 24th . . . We took Good bye with our companions. & took sail on our 870 miles to South Georgia for assistance at 12-30 & at 2 P M we came to a stream of ice which we managed to get through in about an hour. Then we were in the open sea wet through but happy through it all."
Shackleton is about to try to get to South Georgia Island again. He chooses five men to go with him on this dangerous trek. The concrete details in this part of the book show that the Antarctic is unexpected like Shackleton describes it. One minute you are sailing through open ocean, and the next you are sailing through chunks of ice fearing that the boat might collapse.
"About 200 yards beyond was a steep, bouldered beach . . . . Finally the Caird rose up on a swelland her keel ground against the rocks."
In this declarative sentence, Shackleton and his crew reach South Georgia Island. It was a successful voyage that led then to a better place than Elephant Island. Still according to most trips and voyages, this was one of the toughest and most successful ones in all of history.
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