The two groups study each other. Jennie goes forward to a woman holding a baby. Then the boat leaves and they are left in this Newfoundland.
Chapter 2.
1) Hazel is still very sick. Her eyes are closed most of the time and she is so pale. Bones and veins are very transparent through her skin. Lavinia has taken apon herself to care for her.
2) Lavinia feels like she seeks solitude since arriving at the cape.
3) Jennie, Ben, and Ned have settled in very well. Jennie has made friends with Sarah Vincent and Meg Andrews. Ned and Ben have also developed friendships with several residents of the island such as Thomas Hutchings and Josh Vincent. .
4) Thomas Hutchings is a caretaker, looking after the store. It's not an actual store for selling things. It's where various goods are kept and he's responsible for distributing them as they are need. The problem he said they faced was sparing the supplies so that it lasted them all winter, and the winter could be long. Nothing else would come in during the winter months.
5) There is no food left expect for the winter supply. The men decide to walk to the inner island to borrow flour. They figure they will take the sled and gun, in case they see a seal or maybe birds to shoot. .
6) Sense Ned dropped his dead baby into the ocean his stories have changed. No longer the hero of all his tales, he tell stories about pirates and gold , beautiful Indian maidens, fighting villains, magical animals roaming the hills, and animals that have vanished from everywhere but the cape. He also tells stories about ghosts that hover on the beaches at night luring ships to doom on the rocks. Also of women who float above snowdrifts wailing for lovers or lost children. Kingdoms drowned in the sea and princesses stolen by gypsies.
7) On the beach it looks like some strange festival taking place. Men edge back and forth, testing the floating ice with long gaffs. Children wore coloured cloths before climbing over the ice to find a perch from which they can see the seals.