COMMUNICATION BY SIGNALS. on*- 



The positions intended to compose the number of signals Method of 

 should be made in succession. The person, to \rhom asig. "''"» '^• 

 nalismade, should wave his handkerchief horizontally, to 

 convince you that it is understood. 



When the positions which compose the number of your 

 signals are finished, you are to wave your handkerchief in 

 like manner. For example, persons who make use of the 

 homograph should arrange in their separate books, or from 

 a telegraphic dictionary, every question and answer, which 

 may occur to them on any subject, as there is no limitation 

 to the numbers. If the number affixed to your coramuni, 

 cation be 1000, you are first to make position No, 1, and 

 keep it so until your consort answers it by waving tils hand- 

 kerchief, which informs you that it is understood ; thyn you 

 are to make the three times distinctly, as shown at figure 

 A, each to be kept up until answered as be.fore. Now 

 your signal being made, wave your handkerchief, which in, 

 forms your consort, that he is to refer to his book for th^ 

 purport of the signal No. 1000, which may either refer to 

 a distinct word in dictionaries numbered alike, or to a whole 

 sentence in conversations, premeditated and inserted in books 

 formed for the purpose. 



When you wish to commence a communication by signals, 

 you are to display the handkerchief in the manner shown at 

 fig. B, which is called the signal of attention, and your con- 

 sort is to display his in return. The person who displays 

 first has a right to begin the communication, and to pre- 

 vent confusion, it is to be displayed at the commencement 

 of every signal. 



If by any accident your attention should be called off, 

 and you did not comprehend the whole of a signal, by hold- 

 ing the handkerchief as in fig. C, you may demand a repe^ 

 Vition. This signal is called the repeat. Fig. D, shows the 

 following signals, by twisting the handkerchief regularly 

 round one of the arms, and holding it in one of the posi- 

 tions marked 1, 2, 3, 4, viz. No. 1, affirmative; No. 2, 

 negative; No. 3, interrogative; No. 4 to annul. 



SIR, 



