tever.
But the great reason for looking for signs and
tracks is that from these you can read a meaning.
It is exactly like reading a book. You will see
the different letters, each letter combining to
make a word, and the words then make sense; and
there are also commas and full-stops and colons;
all of these alter the meaning of the sense. These
are all little signs, which one who is practised
and has learnt reading, makes into sense at once,
whereas a savage who has never learned could make
no sense of it at all. And so it is with tracking.

TRACKING.

"Sign" is the word used by Guides to mean any
little details, such as footprints, broken twigs,
trampled grass, scraps of food, old matches, etc.

Some native Indian trackers were following up the
footprints of a panther that had killed and
carried off a young kid. He had crossed a wide
bare slab which, of rock, of course, gave no mark
of his soft feet. The tracker went at once to the
far side of the rock where it came to a sharp
edge; he wetted his finger, and just passed it
along the edge till he found a few kid's hairs
sticking to it. This showed him where the panther
had passed down off the rock, dragging the kid
with him. Those few hairs were what Guides call
"signs."

This tracker also found bears by noticing small
"signs." On one occasion he noticed a fresh
scratch in the bark of a tree, evidently made by a
bear's claw, and on the other he found a single
black hair sticking to the bark of a tree, which
told him that a bear had rubbed against it.

_Details in the Country._--If you are in the
country, you should notice landmarks--that is,
objects which help you to find your way to prevent
your getting lost--such as distant hills and
church towers; and nearer objects, such as
peculiar buildings, trees, gates, rocks, etc.

And remember in noticing such landmarks that you
may want to use your knowledge of them some day
for telling some one else how to find his way, so
you must notice them pretty closely so as to be
able to describe