Chapter 5: The Log Of The Endurance Summary

Benjamin Molloy's journal is cracked and rain swollen, held together with a hair ribbon. Matt carefully unties it and begins to journey with Molloy as he read the pages from the beginning. Molloy left from Cape Town, using the jet stream to travel over the Indian Ocean until he reached Australia. Then the winds took him northeast. He kept careful notes describing the places and creatures he saw. In the small hours of the early morning, Matt reaches the section Kate had marked as her grandfather's first encounter with the creatures, beginning with his sighting of the island on September 2nd. He describes the creatures he first thought were albatross, and sketches them many times throughout the following pages. Across two of the pages, he'd drawn first a human skeleton, then a bat...