Letters I-IV: Running Down the Devil

"About two o'clock the mist cleared away, and we beheld, stretched out in every direction, vast and irregular plains of ice, which seemed to have no end.  Some of my comrades groaned, and my own mind began to grow watchful with anxious thoughts, when a strange sight suddenly attracted our attention, and diverted our solicitude from our own situations.  We perceived a low carriage, fixed on a sledge and drawn by dogs, pass on towards the north, at the distance of half a mile; a being which had the shape of a man, but apparently of gigantic stature, sat in the sledge, and guided the dogs.  We watched the rapid progress of the traveller with our telescopes until he was lost among the distant inequalities of the ice." 

This strange scene witnessed and told by Captain Robert Walton was followed the next day by the emergence of another weary visitor who boarded the ship from the vast loneliness of the arctic.  Although we don't discover it until later - the second man is Victor Frankenstein. 

For your first post, you're asked to take on the role of Victor Frankenstein and do the following: share who you are chasing, how you came to the arctic, explain your decision to board the ship, and your purpose for telling your horrific tale to Captain Robert Walton.  

I understand that you may have to fabricate some of these ideas in the beginning, but please make an attempt to enter into the mind of Victor Frankenstein.  As with all posts, you are to write as Victor in the genre of a diary complete with detailed explanations that allow the reader to have a deeper understanding of the character.