What I propose to do is to substitute for it Science, which is exact.

Now, where's the sun ?" "Don't you think," said George, "that if we made our way back to the village, and hired a boy for a mark to guide us, it would save time in the end ?" "It would be wasting hours," said Harris, with decision.

"You leave this to me.

I have been reading about this thing, and it has interested me." He took out his watch, and began turning himself round and round.
"It's as simple as A B C," he continued.

"You point the short hand at the sun, then you bisect the segment between the short hand and the twelve, and thus you get the north." He worried up and down for a while, then he fixed it.
"Now I've got it," he said; "that's the north, where that wasps' nest is.
Now give me the map." We handed it to him, and seating himself facing the wasps, he examined it.
"Todtmoos from here," he said, "is south by south-west." "How do you mean, from here ?" asked George.
"Why, from here, where we are," returned Harris.
"But where are we ?" said George.
This worried Harris for a time, but at length he cheered up.
"It doesn't matter where we are," he said.