Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1903-01-18
WONDERS OF PATHFINpING.

Inc remarkable ease with which
certain animals and some savage races
OF men can find their way through
country, and often through territory
which they never trayersed before.
has occupied naturalists and physiolo-
gists for ages, and no thoroughly ade-
Tuate eNp.al alton OF the power has
been made.
Bates, the explorer, tells of one of
his io.,t ,.tNS in South America when
he and two companions, one Portu-
gcse t;;.veler, and the other ten
ycarold Indian boy had penetrated
he primeval forest for two days, dur.
ing which time the boy did not appear
to pay the least attention to the
route
At the end of the second day both
Bates and his Portuguese companion
wore bewildered completely, and had
to confess that they were lost Final
1y, without expecting any real help,
they asked the little Indian if he could
find his way out. Without the least
hesitation he pointed in a certain di-
rection and said that they would find
their camp straight ahead.
They doubted it, as the boy pointed
in direction exactly opposite to that
in which they expected to find it. but
they We're agreeably disappointed. for
the camp turned out to be just where
the boy said it was.
Horses are famous for being able
to find their way Zurn, the naturalist.
tells Of one that worked for Il miller.
When ii became blind he sold it to
a farmer about fifty miles distant, One
day. some time after it had been sold,
IT'S owner drove along a road that pass
Cd the mil. As soon as the blind
horse reach Vi a little side path that
led from the road to its old home it
turned INTO :. and tried to trot up
to the mill
Subsequent experiment We're made
With the animal, and it was found that
no matter how the horse was driven
from what direction it approached the
road or undc" what circumstances, it
never failed TO turn out of the main
road when it came abreast of the little
side path.
The German Principality Lippe once
was celebrated for a particularly fine
breed CT horses. They ran half wild
and We're beautiful in form and ex-
ceed.uely swift and powerful. One
of them, q fine stallion, was sold to
a French tf1icer who shipped the beast
to his ho1ne in France.
A few weeks afterWard the horse
arrived in his old home in Lippe.
It wore Trcncl harness and was Gov
cred with dust and foam. 1t turned out
that the stallion had thrown its rid
er the ,nor ,tnt he had mounted it aft
er taking it from the railroad, and had
larted away down the road. Later
men reported that they had seen II
swim across the Rhine. All the facts
that were gathered finally showed that
the horse had run in almost straight
line from it's French owners place tC
it's home.
Civilized men do not possess the
gift in so great measure, but lndl
viduals are found often who have 1t
An avofFicor NJ tho limited States coast
survey is noted for it. The writer hat
striking proof of his power one night
in a big bay on the Atlantic coast
A small boat containing the officer
ard two companions had set out from
an anchored vessel to reach an islanc
about five miles away. None Of those
in the boat had ever been in the bay
before. A thick sea fog covered the
water and neither lights nor land
marks were to be seen. Before the
boat had gone fifty feet the vessel was
siotted out.
Yet the officer steered the little boa
without single mistake and withou
stopping once, as surely and as true
as if it were bright day. The party
not only reached the island, but was
actually steered by him to little
wharf he knew to exist from hls
glance at chart before he started.
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