Just add up the periods of time and May 7th could only be a time of arrival if spring had come unusually early that year. But in Victor's account he says that spring was unusually late that year. The evening Victor destroyed the female creature, the sun had gone down and the moon was rising. He says he set out from the island to dump the remains on the fourth day, when the moon rose between two and three in the morning. Thomas Paine says the universe is the deist's Bible.
True religion is the process of understanding truth.
Brother does not question these huge discrepancies, which suggest that the story is a fabrication. Brother has clearly not been prudent. He seems to be unbalanced to say the least. He warns us in a letter we may never see of the monster. Yet although the ship is stuck in the ice and vulnerable to mischief day after day, the is not the slightest hint that brother has warned his crew.