igo HOW MAN FINDS HIS WAY 



for the fact of these occurrences is well known 

 to most people. Sufficient, therefore, that 

 telaesthesia is a fact, and one, I think, which 

 goes far to solve the mystery of "homing"; 

 and, moreover, it is by this means that birds, 

 animals and others, find their way about, and, 

 in the case of birds, to far-distant countries. 

 We have seen that birds, whether old or 

 young, are capable of finding their way from 

 Great Britain to Africa or elsewhere. But, 

 whereas birds do so naturally, man, having 

 practically no innate sense of direction, was 

 forced to use his intelligence in the matter of 

 travel and learn by experience how to find his 

 way about. This could only be done by 

 venturing a short way at first, taking mental 

 notes of the surroundings, and then increasing 

 the distances. When, however, his journey- 

 ings became extended it was necessary to 

 record observations in black and white lest 

 his memory should fail him. But still, when at 

 sea and celestial indications were obliterated 

 by fog and cloudy weather, he was at a loss, 

 and so had to fall back on nature. He in- 

 vented the Magnetic Compass, a material con- 

 trivance, but having an index imbued with 

 natural power, a power of which he knew little 

 beyond the fact that it was infallible and un- 

 affected by distance. Furnished with this 



