Chapters 13-15 Summary

In Chapter Thirteen, sixty days have passed and the boat is built. They push it towards the river, and Kazz insists on a sacrifice before they enter the water, because that had been his people's custom when they embarked on a voyage in the water. Kazz gets nervous when Burton refuses, but Burton argues that since they are not on earth anymore, the water god from earth will not get angry at them. Kazz calms down somewhat, though he is still clearly nervous about leaving the human sacrifice out. They set off from the riverbank and travel through the day. They land in the evening, and Alice mistakes a man for one of her children who had been killed in the first World War. Another 415 days go by and the group continues to sail. Burton estimates that they have traveled roughly...