And if I set out to search--what then?

Could I find my way back to the prospector with its pricelessfreight of books, firearms, ammunition, scien-tific instruments,and still more books--its great library of reference works uponevery conceivable branch of ap-plied sciences?

And if I could not, of what value was all this vast storehouseof potential civilization and progress to be to the world of myadoption?

Upon the other hand, if I remained here alone with it, what couldI accomplish single-handed?

Nothing.

But where there was no east, no west, no north, no south, no stars,no moon, and only a stationary mid-day sun, how was I to find myway back to this spot should ever I get out of sight of it?