Look at the sun, Dan.

There it is right ahead of us.

So, you know that's the west--that's the way we have to go." "That very useful ob de sun, sah; but suppose we not live in de west de sun not point de way den." "Oh, yes, he would, just the same, Dan.

We should know whether to go away from him, or to keep him on the right hand or on the left." This was beyond Dan.

"And I s'pose the moon will show de way at night, massa ?" "The moon would show the way if she were up, but she is not always up; but I have got a compass here, and so whether we have the sun or the moon, or neither of them, I can find my way back to land." Dan had never seen a compass, and for an hour amused himself turning it round and round and trying to get it to point in some other direction than the north.
"Now, Dan," Vincent said at last, "give me that compass, and get out the food.