The author uses a third-person omniscient to help the readers visualize the challenges and hardships the miners faced.
Evidence:
I read this story about 2 weeks ago, but from what I recall, there's a whole paragraph in the beginning of the excerpt describing the miner's condition when they stepped off the boat.
If someone wanted to be a Archivist, they would have to work hard for it. If i can I would copy and past my last one of this but you know I can't reallt copy and past on here. But you know what I'm getting at..-