Answer:
B. an atlas.
Explanation:
An atlas is the best place that Terrence will look when getting the information about the population of the Jamestown settlement.
An atlas is known to be a book which contains collection of maps. The atlas presents geographic information, political boundaries, geopolitical and economic statistics. Also, the atlas gives information about was is in the map and the various places in the map. It gives information about historic areas and their population.
One modernist author who examined racism and oppression through a story of friendship between an Englishman and an Indian was E.M. Foster, in his most famous work, A Passage to India. The whole novel itself is about whether it will ever be possible for an Indian and an Englishman to become friends, given the circumstances in India after the British colonization. Written in 1924, the novel explores this theme, as well as many other subjects such as oppression and racism.
I would say that they're comparing the situation that they're in to a leaking boat.