The earthquake hasn't caused much damage, although the waves cost Karana all the food and weapons hidden in the cave, as well as the canoe she was working on and those hidden under the south cliffs. It will take her a year to start again from scratch so she searches and collects the parts of the lost canoes until she has enough planks to reshape and make a new one.
It is now late in the spring and Karana does not think of the Aleuts. She describes clearly how she forms the new canoe out of the old pieces. One day as she is collecting seaweed to make pitch for the seams, she sees a ship and runs for the headland. She sees that this is not an Aleut ship, yet it also does.....
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