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I describe a third concentric circle with a similar result, and I continue with more and more circles till Emile, shocked at my stupidity, shows me that every arc, large or small, contained by the same angle will always be the sixth part of its circle. Now we are ready to use the protractor. To prove that two adjacent angles are equal to two right angles people describe a circle.
"Hand me that protractor. Seventy-one, nineteen, true. That comes to" Ayling performs a mental calculation "almost exactly eighty-five, magnetic. We'll go out about nine, with two guns, to the corner of this dry ditch here the range is two thousand five hundred, exactly" "Our lightning calculator!" murmurs his admiring colleague. "No elastic up the sleeve, or anything!
More frequently our vision was circumscribed to a few yards till our merry woodcutters made for us the pleasant scene of a long vista fit for camels to pass: as a whole, the jungle would have made the authors of the natty little hints to travellers smile at their own productions, good enough, perhaps, where one has an open country with trees and hills; by which to take bearings, estimate distances, see that one point is on the same latitude, another on the same longitude with such another, and all to be laid down fair and square with protractor and compass, but so long as we remained within the vegetation, that is fed by the moisture from the Indian Ocean, the steamy, smothering air, and dank, rank, luxuriant vegetation made me feel, like it, struggling for existence, and no more capable of taking bearings than if I had been in a hogshead and observing through the bunghole!
Owing to casualties and to the observers being recalled to their battalions the personnel of the party was always changing. But of the above, the four men of the 7th N.F. and Pte. F. Turner practically remained with the observers from first to last. For about a week I stayed at Lapugnoy, giving lectures to the observers and carrying out some field training with the compass and protractor.
Yaverland said, "Oh, what nonsense! I was just thinking how rippingly you ran." "Havers!" she replied. "You were thinking nothing of the sort. You were wondering what for I carried an iron-monger's shop in my pocket. But yon rattling's just a tin with some coconuts I've in it that I made last night and slipped in in case you'd like it, rubbing up against my protractor."
"But why in Heaven's name," Yaverland asked, "do you carry a protractor about with you?" "Off and on I try and keep up my Euclid and do a rider over my lunch, and I just keep a protractor handy." Yaverland stopped. "Ellen," he said, "I haven't known you very long."
Clare had been using the protractor herself, quickly familiarizing herself with it. "Another possible divergence," went on Kennedy, "is the perpendicular position of the letter in relation to the line. That is of great value in individualizing a machine. It is very seldom that machines, even when they are new, are perfect in this particular. It does not seem much until you magnify it.
And then from these sketches and with my own maps and protractor I was able to tell them what they were looking at on the map, and to prepare a panoramic sketch for their use at Adam O.P. Pte. King sent in an admirable series of sketches which were most useful in this work of discovery. Later on the more powerful telescope was also taken up to Adam O.P., and with this Pte.
Over the lower end of this he held a plumb bob, and took the angle between the perpendicular line of the bob-string and the inclined line of the rod with a small protractor that he carried in his notebook. The angle measured over fifty degrees from the horizontal. Having thus determined the angle of inclination, the engineer picked a likely line of ascent and started to climb the gulch chute.
When out of the line, in a camp near Neuville Vitasse, I had to give the observers a certain amount of practical training in the use of the compass and protractor, and map reading. But after that I was free to do what I liked within reason, and I generally devoted my spare time to salvage. The observers often turned out to assist me in this, and Lieut.
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