Read the following passage from journal of the adventures of a party of california gold-seekers by margaret frink:
we had left home just five months and seven days before. our friends the carsons came into camp with us. they had crossed the missouri river with us on the fourteenth day of may, at bullard's ferry, ten miles below council bluffs, but after that were separated from us for weeks and months at a time. they were strongly of the opinion that mr. frink would never get through, because he brought his wife with him. yet here we are, all together once more, safe at the end of our long and eventful journey.
which of the following statements best describes how the author connects the sequence of events in this passage?
a. she records the total distance they covered from beginning to end.
b. she opens with the date on which the entry was recorded in the journal.
c. she describes her joy at reuniting with her long-lost friends.
d. she reintroduces people who appeared earlier in the journal.