Answer:
B: To inform people of the natural beauty in a part of America
Explanation:
If the passage is this than the answer should be that!
As the sun angled, the buttes and coulees, the cliffs and sculptured hills and ravines lost their burned and dreadful look and glowed with yellow and rich browns and a hundred variations of red and silver gray, all picked out by streaks of coal black. It was so beautiful that I stopped near a thicket of dwarfed and wind-warped cedars and junipers, and once stopped I was caught, trapped in color and dazzled by the clarity of the light
I believe that he though the needed clothes and weapons most the first time he visited the shipwreck, although later he returned in order to find tools and other stuff he might need.
If it is a narrator talking then its first person if not its third person
