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this appearance excited our unqualified wonder. we were, as we believed, many
hundred miles from any land; but this apparition seemed to denote that it was not, in
reality, so distant as we had supposed. shut in, however, by ice, it was impossible to
follow his track, which we had observed with the greatest attention.
about two hours after this occurrence we heard the ground sea, and before night the ice
broke and freed our ship. we, however, lay to until the morning, fearing to encounter in
the dark those large loose masses which float about after the breaking up of the ice. i
profited of this time to rest for a few hours.
in the morning, however, as soon as it was light, i went upon deck and found all the
sailors busy on one side of the vessel, apparently talking to someone in the sea. it was, in
fact, a sledge, like that we had seen before, which had drifted towards us in the night on a
large fragment of ice. only one dog remained alive; but there was a human being within
it whom the sailors were persuading to enter the vessel.
frankenstein; or the modern prometheus by mary shelley (1823) is in the public domain.
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notes

1. a commercial ship
2. a strong wind
3. a term that has the archaic meaning \to refresh; reinvigorate\

Explanation:

The text describes sailors finding a sledge with a human being (alive as they persuade him to enter the vessel) on a large fragment of ice. Option D ("a man stranded on the ice") fits this description. Option A is incorrect as there's no indication it's Frankenstein's creature. Option B and C are wrong because the person is alive (not killed or dead).

Answer:

D. a man stranded on the ice.