Show grant a natural bushwhacker after looking critically at a map of e locality it seemed to become photographed indelibly upon his brain and ho could follow ila features without referring to it again besides he possessed an almost intuitive knowledge of topography and never became confused as to the points of the compass ho was a natural bushwhacker and was never so much at homo as when finding his way by the course of streams the contour of tho hills and the general features of the pon I 1 asked him ono day whether he had ever been deceived aa to the points of tho compass he said only once when I 1 arrived at cairo ills the effect of that curious bend in tho river turned mo completely around and when the sun camo up the first morn ing after I 1 got thero it seemed to me that it rose directly in the west general horace sorter Century in |