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Updated: May 6, 2025
Captains Speke and Grant divided the duties of the expedition between them, the first mapping the country, which is done by timing the rate of march, taking compass-bearings, noting the water-shed, etcetera.
"Which all leads to the probability that he has pursued his scheme and brought it to a successful issue." "I am afraid it does. But have you got your notes of the compass-bearings?" "The book is in my overcoat pocket with the board. I will fetch them."
This is done by timing the rate of march with a watch, taking compass-bearings along the road, or on any conspicuous marks as, for instance, hills off it and by noting the watershed in short, all topographical objects.
We have now only to mark off these two distances on the two compass-bearings which we last laid down on the chart: thus," measuring and marking off the distances as he spoke "and here we have the position of the slavers and of the entrance to the creek; and by a moment's use of Mildmay's parallel ruler thus we get the compass- bearing of the entrance from the Daphne.
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