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Title: Outdoor life and Indian stories : making open air life attractive to young Americans by telling them all about woodcraft, signs and signaling, the stars, fishing, camping ... : also stories of noted hunters and scouts, great Indians and warriors ... all of them true and interesting
Year: 1912 (1910s)
Authors: Ellis, Edward Sylvester, 1840-1916
Subjects: Indians of North America Camping
Publisher: (Philadelphia? : s.n.
Contributing Library: New York Public Library
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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hough not a very bright one, because it marksthe North at all times and is fixed in its place, while all the otherstars seem to swing around it once in each twenty-four hours,which makes it impracticable to use them for guidance. TheDipper or Great Bear is well known to all American boys onaccount of the size, peculiar shape and brilliancy of thisgroup, and the fact that it never sets in this latitude. Thisgroup always points out the Pole star or Polaris, which is aboutin a line with the stars (Alpha and Beta) which form the out-side of the Dipper at a distance about three and a half times asgreat as the space separating these two stars. This star alwayspoints out the North. If the imaginary line between Alpha FIRST AID TO THE INJURED. and Beta and Polaris is continued about the same distancebeyond Polaris it will meet Cassiopeia, five stars in the shapeof a W, which, like the Great Bear, is always seen in our lati-tude. With these directions it should be always easy to locatePolaris.
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NORTH HORIZONTHE CIRCUMPOLAR CIRCLE What to Do in Case of Accident DROWNING 1. Loosen clothing, if any. 2. Empty lungs of water b)<laying body on its stomach and lifting it by the middle so thatthe head hangs down. Jerk the body a few times. 3. Pulltongue forward, using handkerchief, or pin with string, ifnecessary. 4. Imitate motion of respiration bv alternately com- OUTDOOR LIFE FOB YOUNG AMERICANS. pressing and expanding the lower ribs, about twenty times aminute. Alternately raising and lowering the arms from thesides up above the head will stimulate the action of the lungs.Let it be done gently but persistently. 5. Apply warmth and

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