Show GUIDED BY THE TREES The Indian Relies on Tall Pines to Show Him the Way The Indians are guided by the trees more than anything else If you look across tho lake you will see that tho tops of about half of the tall pine trees bend slightly toward tho east says Kccreatlon There Is a distinct trend to tho forest always toward the cast On this the Indian relies Implicitly and It docs not deceive him Again if an Indian traveling in tho forest makes a loop and Intersects his own trail ho knows It Immediately without seeing any footprints because of tho character of tho timber One of our party accompanied by an Indian Dig Paul as guide shot a moose BIg Paul had never been In that count 1 before and as It was a stormy day without tho sun to guldo him ho became confused In his sense of direction and had to wander around somewhat In order to lint tho camp again But on tho following day holed ho-led us three miles through tho forest to tho carcass Ho did not follow the back trail but went apparently by Instinct In-stinct I followed him with my compass com-pass lIe would vary and waver In his course nearly 90 degrees first to right and then 10 the left but ho wont to the moose Now ant again ho would point to something ho remembered particularly particu-larly Hero ho would say Is the rock whore you set the compass down or This is whore we were when wo hoard tho shot Then ho would point to tho ground where to our asphiiltpavementtralned senses thoio wasnt anything at all to see nnd nmko no comment but would smile at us a little and goon Hy and by ho came out exactly nt the moose All I could got out of him was that ho wont by the trees In addition to noticing everything else your guide soes trails that you cannot seo and notices tho bitten twigs that you do not discover have been browsed off until ho points It out to you When a twig scorns to havo been very freshly bitten off ho will apply his own mouth to It and bite It off again If ho sees froth on tho twigs ho makes a sign to you not to crack so many Branches J |