I enjoyed reading the later part of this chapter because, as with the Jonathan Harker storyline, it creates a lot of tension and is more gripping due to the darker and more sinister events that are inclded in this section of the book. For example, I found tat the sea-captain's diary built a lot of tension because it moved in steps. The diary moves on with every few days that pass. The events all build up day by day and slowly more exciting things begin to take place.
I was particulalry intrigued by the mystery of the strange man on board the ship. Many characters in the chapter seem to be affected by the whole thing with the ship. For example the normally calm dog reacts with what seems to be fear when at the sea-captains funeral service eg. "fell all into a tremble". Also, the second-to-last-man on the ship is so terrified of the thing aboard the ship that he jumps into the sea, increasing the readers' fear of "It". All these things give the reader a great sense of anticipation and it will be interesting to see what happens later on in the next few chapters.
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