| Show INDIAN measurements how are computed bythe red mn of the west savage people are content with units ot measure which though indefinite answer the purpose of men who have no use for exact knowledge but who do want to know what comes within tha scope of their vision or of their ability to tr avelon foot or on ir ideas of distance will conform to the way in which that distance is to be covered we know how natural it is for us to speak of places as being so many days journey away and in crossing the ocean a place was so many weeks sail distant until recent times in the east distances are reckoned by the hour an hour beings about three miles it is not at all strange then to find the indians reckoning in a similar manner I 1 it is said that the indian and halt breed canoe men compute distances on the water by pipes one pipe is the distance they can in the antar arval between the gaitings bai tings they are allowed tomake jn order to have a smoke permission for this halt is given by the person in charge at intervals which vary according to circumstances atthe guide is indulgent ha makes the pauses frequent it the travelers are in a hurry or the weather is threatening fewer stops are made A pipe is therefore wholly indeterminate j is measured by A different standard jf the distance which idle goods have to be carried exceeds a mile in length it is generally broken armore pauses which are ordered by the person in command of the expedition just as the halt is called for a distance traveled between these stops is called a haufe this according to the or less difficulty of the portage and A pause is understood to mean about one third of a mile 1 he of wisconsin havo thomsane long distances into looks A look is the distance between tho person and the farthest object he can see in the biroc tio is going r look is taken from the point where his journey begins when he has reached tho object first selected he from that point selects tho object to which his second looka is taken and so on it is needless to point out the circumstances that may make this unit of un cartain youths companion |
