Richmond daily palladium. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1876-1904, 1900-05-31

iilsS ~ II hut- knowing thar ,ha-.
flissss IL. u,an with the herd and ,ha,
ie would probably be ND Hill ahov.
them. AMI as there was a SOLITARY IRA.
aiaove them and il WAS a hot. sunnx
day guessed be would be under this
tree "a look through the glasses shox.
Ell this surmise to be right.
| was once acting as scou, for a marty
in a desert country. where wa W..
getting done up. for want of wafer I
had gone two or three miles ahead To
where thought the ground seemed 10
slope slightly downward: but. excen,
very shallow. dry water course. there
was no sign Of water. AsI was max
Ing my way slowly back again I no.
ticed scratching in the sand. evident.
iy recently made by n buck. and rho
sand thrown up was CT a darker color
therefore damper, than that on the
surface. dismounted and seooned nm
more with my hands and found the mn.
dersoii quite moist: so water was evil
IDENTITY near aud could be got by dig
ging.
At mat moment two pigeons flew
away from under rock near by. Full
or hope. | went 10 the spot and found
there a small pool of water, which
yielded sufficient for the Immediate re-
quirerlents of the party.
You mast carefully study the WAYS
and habits of tue enemy himself
For instance. you come across three
fresh paths trodden in the grass on
the South African veldt. all running
parallel to each other at a few yards
distance BY having studied the hab-
its OF your enemy you Will know at
once that this means three companies
have passed that way on the march.
as generally they march in single file,
each company following its own lead
er. II the footmarks show that the
men were wearing sandals. it means
they were on IA long march; IL bare
footd. they were not going far.
In selecting your lookout place, al
ways be careful to see that there Is
NOR than one way out of 1t, so that IL
an enemy cuts you off at one you can
escape by the other Thus a tower Is
a Rmpting place to look out from. but
If an enemy comes and stands guard
AT the foot of II you cannot get away.
whereas the roof of a house will give
yoa an almost equally good view and
possibly several different ways of get
ting to the ground.
Trees. for the same reason as towers.
must be used with caution. Remem-
Der that men are very apt to forget to
look up In trees for you. unless they
seeyour footnarks on the ground lead
Ing TO the tree. have stood under a
tree with an enemy up in 1t and never
noticed him till he fired down at me.
Trucking means following up foot
marks II is called "spooring" in
South Africa Scouting without track
Ing is like bread and butter without
the bread. The first thing to learn is
to distinguish the pace at which a
horse or man was moving when he
made the track. 1t will be seen that
a horse walking leaves pairs of foot
marks. each mind foot coming close
to the impression of the fore foot At
a trot each pair of footmarks is at a
greater distance from the next. and
the ground is more forcibly struck. the
toe more deeply indented in the ground
than at a walk. At a canter there are
two single footmarks. and then pair;
at a gailop single footmarks deeply in
dented.
OF tie root cunsss-- THE. .whole dai
ground. the feet a little under ono vor,
apart. Running. the toes are more
ueepiy indented in the ground. and the
Iee' are more han n yard apart Ma
i've trackefs boast that not only can
they tell II persons sex and age nv
their tracks. but also their characters
iheS say that people who turn opf
fn'Aif toes much are generally liars. II
VAS trick with highwaymen of old
ana with horse sieaIrrs more recan,lp
TO PAT their horses shoes on wrong
way round. in order 10 deceive track
ems Who might try to follow them m,
uut good fracker would not b., take:,
similarly thieves often walk back
sard In tracking where sDoor IS din.
I'll 10 see such AS on hard grouu,, -,
u grass note the direction of TN. has,
ootpfint that you can see. ard then
.ooA Oh III the same direction. but we'll
! mead or you-say 20 to II wards
~ ~ tue grass you will generally Sc,
ne piades bent or trodden. and or, |
iifd ground possibly stones DISPLACED /
u scratched. and so on-smaIl sirrS
hlch seem in n line one behind IN.
ther' give a kind of track that other
wise would not be noticed once
racked bicycle on hard ,nacadan,
DAD where il really made no impress
ION at all bun by looking along thu
uflace OF the road for a long distaac,
mead of me, under the rising sun. as
unopened. the line II had taken WAS
ui'e visible through the almost invfsi
ie coating of dew upon the ground
landing on the track and looking
own upon 1t close to my feet, l could
OF see the SIigbtaSt slew - -