John Thornton's Journeys And Scope: Summary

John Thornton goes on a walk the next day to try and clear his mind. He's thinking about how he and his dogs need to get to Dawson and how are they going to get there, while he's thinking about this he trips on tree roots and falls on his face. He then gets up and sees what he tripped over when he sees it was a tree root he looks up and sees trees that's when the idea hits him he can use those trees and the rope back at camp to make a raft. He turns around and goes straight back to the camp where the rope and his dogs are and gets his dogs, rope, and something to cut the trees with. Then he goes to where he found the trees that are perfect for making the raft and starts cutting down the trees into pieces for the raft. Once all the wood is
cut he starts piecing them together and tying the rope on it to make a raft once that's done, he makes oars to steer the raft. Once that's done he put them together and put them somewhere safe so he could leave the next morning, then he went to camp and fell asleep. He woke up early the next day and got his dogs, then, went to where he hid the raft and the oars and got his dogs and food and everything on it then got on it himself and started heading towards Dawson. The first two days went pretty well the water was all calm and not moving that fast and the weather was nice and sunny so the dogs could swim when they wanted to.
The third day the weather was all stormy and the river was all rough and it was hard to steer and the oars broke so he couldn't control where he was going and ended up crashing into rocks. He was fine, but some of his dogs weren't some of his dogs had gotten hurt so he had to stop the journey to Dawson to nurse his dogs back to health. Once the raft had stopped moving John Thornton got off of the raft with the few dogs that weren't hurt and grabbed the two who were injured and carried them to dry ground to see how bad their injuries were and how long they would take to heal. He estimated it would take like one two weeks to heal so that means it would take twice as long to get to Dawson than normal. So instead of one two weeks it will take two three weeks. Once his dogs are all healed and can walk normally again John Thornton then found things to use as oars. He and his dogs got back on the raft and headed to Dawson. On the way to Dawson they hit all good weather and calm water so the trip takes a lot quicker than John Thornton thought it would take. It took like four days to get to Dawson instead of one, two weeks. Once they got to Dawson they met up with everyone
else.