ny, let go
again. This one evidently belonged to the same hive as the first, for
we saw that it flew toward the same point in the woods. The direction
was carefully noted, as before. A clue was now found to the whereabouts
of one hive--that of _the first_ and _fourth_ bees. That was enough for
the present. As to the second and third, the records which Cudjo had
marked against them would stand good for the morrow or any other day;
and he proceeded to complete the `hunt' after the nest of Numbers 1 and
4.

"We had all by this time acquired an insight into the meaning of Cudjo's
manoeuvres, and we were able to assist him. The exact point where the
bee-tree grew was now determined. It stood at the point where the two
lines made by bees, Numbers 1 and 4, met each other. It would be found
at the very apex of this angle--_wherever it was_. But that was the
next difficulty--to get at this point. There would have been no
difficulty about it, had the ground been open, or so that we could have
seen to a sufficient distance through the woods. This could have been
easily accomplished by two of us stationing ourselves--one at each of
the two logs--while a third individual moved along either of the lines.
The moment this third person should appear on both lines at once, he
would of course be at the point of intersection; and at this point the
bee-tree would be found. I shall explain this by a diagram.

"Suppose that A and C were the two logs, from which the bees, Numbers 1
and 4, had respectively taken their flight; and suppose A B and C B to
be the directions in which they had gone. If they went directly home--
which it was to be presumed they both did--they would meet at their nest
at some point B. This point could not be discovered by seeing the bees
meeting at it, for they were already lost sight of at short distances
from A and C. But without this, had the ground been clear of timber, we
could easily have found it in the following manner:--I should have
placed myself at log A, while Cudjo stationed himself at C. We should
then have sent one of the boys--say Harry--along the line A D. This,
you must observe, is a _fixed_ line, for D was already a _marked_ point.
After reaching D, Harry should continue on, keeping in the same line.
The moment, therefore, that he came under the eye of Cudjo--who would be
all this while glancing along C E, also a fixed line--he would then be
on both lines at once, and consequently a