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Updated: June 17, 2025
Of course the 'twenty-one degrees and thirteen minutes' could allude to nothing but elevation above the visible horizon, since the horizontal direction was clearly indicated by the words 'northeast and by north. This latter direction I at once established by means of a pocket-compass; then, pointing the glass as nearly at an angle of twenty-one degrees of elevation as I could do it by guess, I moved it cautiously up or down, until my attention was arrested by a circular rift or opening in the foliage of a large tree that over-topped its fellows in the distance.
Now, then, let's take our bearings," continued the major, and he pulled out a pocket-compass. "Don't let's be wearied out in finding our way back when we are tired." "Which way are we going, sir?" "That depends, my lad. It is not as we please, but as the jungle allows. You talk as if you were in a country full of roads."
With this object in view, Mr Day, having provided himself with a pocket-compass, went on shore one dark but fine night, and proceeded through the enemy's lines, traversing a distance of four or five miles, occasionally up to his knees in water, till he got within 200 yards of the vessels.
He therefore sat down by the fire opposite the men, and taking a port-fire match from his pocket, threw a small piece of it into the flame; at the same time he took his pocket-compass, and by means of a magnet, which happened to be in his inkhorn, made the needle turn round very briskly.
I will pay you well, Nick, if you will start to-morrow, with your rifle and a pocket-compass, off here towards the head-waters of the Susquehannah and Delaware, where the streams run rapidly, and where there are no fevers, and bring me an account of three or four thousand acres of rich bottom-land, in such a way as a surveyor can find it, and I can get a patent for it.
"Thank you, sir," answered Smellie delightedly; and planting himself comfortably astride a branch, he drew out a pencil and paper and proceeded to make a very careful sketch-chart of the river-mouth, Banana Creek, and the creek in which the slavers were lying; noting the bearings carefully with the aid of a pocket-compass.
"Now," said the captain, "how are we steering?" "Nearly due south," said the mate, glancing at a pocket-compass. "Then you are right, Gregory, and this is the nearest way home." "If it is an island, father," said Mark, smiling. "And that it must be, Mark, my lad, and a very small one, as we shall see."
It led me into a jungle, and down a watercourse bisecting it; but, after following it for an hour, I lost it, and, in endeavouring to retrace it, lost my way. However, my pocket-compass stood me in good stead; and by it I steered for the open plain, in the centre of which stood the camp.
By the weight and the look, and also by the sound of them when shaken, they contained money. Next, a pair of rubber-soled Blucher boots. Next, a small square case, which he opened and found to contain a pocket-compass. Next, a pair of night-glasses. Next, a neck-comforter of knitted gray worsted And, lastly, a folded map.
I had gathered a clue from the little appliance a plate of white fret-wood about seven inches by five, to one corner of which a pocket-compass had been fixed with shellac but was not quite clear as to the details of the method. "You can read a compass pretty quickly, I think?" Thorndyke said. "Of course I can. Used we not to sail a yacht together when we were students?"
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