Part II Chapter 1-3

Hurley kills a seal with a club, just as I imagine a caveman would have.

As part I came to an end, the crew of the Endurance were told to abandon ship. Previously, the primary setting of the story was inside the ship. Now it has moved onto a floe a couple miles away from the ship. The crew, originally plans on walking near three hundred and fifty miles, but get stuck about a mile away from the boat. The men, stuck out in the middle of the antarctic, are in surprisingly good spirits. Even when they realize that they are most likely going to stay on the same floe for months, they still aren't down. At the end of the chapter, Shackleton comes up with his plan. It is to stay on the floe that is headed to the northwest to Snow Hill Island. Once they reach would have to travel for another hundred and fifty miles to get to Wilhelmina Bay, a whaling station that could get them rescued. The ship's captain, Frank Worsley, wrote "The rapidity with which one can completely change one's ideas... and accomodate ourselves to a state of barbarism is wonderful." This is seen especially when Lansing writes "As they trudged along beside the sledges, Hurley spotted a large Weddell seal about a thousands yards off to the right. He had no gun with which to kill it so he took a piece of wood and approached the seal cautiously. When he was close enough, he stunned the animal with his club. Then he brained it with a mountaineer's pickaxe." I found it interesting that a man can go from the ship's photographer to a primitive hunter.