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12 Another asked about shelter. Another was grieving what had been left behind.

13 The shore did not consider these questions an insult.

14 Sariah said: We have reached a place; we have not reached the end of being persons in a place.

15 And they did not suppose that a promise heard by one traveler was a deed to whatever another person might already call home.

16 They began with water, rest, useful work, and questions about those with whom they would share the land.

17 Nephi wrote: The promise is not that life requireth nothing more of us.

18 It is that we may undertake what comes next without first declaring ourselves unworthy of the shore.

19 The sun rose again. Breakfast remained surprisingly necessary.

20 And nobody called the second morning a failure of the first.