Describe the shifts in the narration of the events as indicated in the three sections of the text. Give a subtitle to each section.
In the first section, story describes that the journey begins from Plymouth (England) to 3500km east pf Cape Town (Africa). The narrator was happy that he
was going to follow the path of James Cook and he was very confident. And in the next section, they faced gigantic waves which was double in size of their ship. They were scared of dying. But as a responsible captain the narrator took necessary precautions to save themselves from that scary and difficult situation. This section shows their confidence and fighting spirit and strong will power. And in the next section, on January 6th, the Wave Walker rode out of the storm and they were searching the island and in the evening, they found the Amsterdam Island.
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