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SURVIVAL ON LAND AND SEA 
to recognize them as easily as yon do familiar buildings, streets, 
and parks of your home town. 
Belt of Orion 
The constellation of Orion consists of seven stars. The three 
close together (see fig. 3) are the brightest and most distinctive. 
If you hold this page above you and look up at it you will see 
Orion as it would appear when directly overhead or in the 
heavens to the south of you. Now turn the page around until 
the top is toward your chin. You will then see Orion as it 
would appear if you faced the north to view it. 
Orion, whenever it can be seen, rises above a point on the hori- 
zon due east of you. It will set due west of you wherever you 
may be. 
It will pass directly overhead if you are on the Equator. It 
will pass north of the point directly overhead if you are in 
south latitude and south of you if you are in north latitude. 
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