FOREST LAW 233 



The degree of alarm of an animal may be 

 judged by the nature of his spoor. If running, 

 a good deal of earth is displaced by the hoofs, 

 which are then more widely splayed, and the 

 marks of the points more deeply cut in the earth. 



As regards blood spoor, the amount of blood 

 is no certain indication of the severity of the 

 wound, but only of a blood vessel having been 

 injured. Air bubbles in the blood show that it is 

 coming from the lungs ; and blood in the droppings, 

 that there is an abdominal wound, and the in- 

 testines are injured. Blood should be looked for 

 on grass and bush as well as on the ground. The 

 nature and severity of a wound may be judged 

 from the position of the blood stains on the grass 

 or ground where he has been moving or lying 

 down. 



If your guide is with you, and knows the 

 locality, you will rarely lose your way. The 

 sense of orientation has not been destroyed in the 

 Bushman of the plains, as it has in the white 

 man who has lived in cities, and the native of the 

 hills, neither of whom has had to study direction. 

 The native, however, is not so reliable at night 

 as in the day, and it is wiser then to march by 

 compass or stars. 



If you find yourself alone, and think yourself 

 lost, keep your head, march by sun or compass 

 in the direction of your camp, but to that side of 

 it from which you last left it ; for thus you may 

 meet your tracks, or recognize ground you have 

 already passed over. 



It is better to take your bearings by compass 



