WALKING IN CIRCLES [To the Editor of the SPECTATOR.] reading
a copy of the Spectator of January 9th, I MIS interested in some correspondence about walking in circles in the letters to the Editor columns. An experience which actually happened to me whilst hunting the kangaroo in the " mallee " of South Australia some four years ago may be of interest. We were a party of three with two dogs. The latter scented a 'roo and were soon out of sight. We followed for about a mile on foot as best we could, tracking all three animals by the marks they left in the soft, red loam, until we came to a rocky rise where all trace of the animals was lost. We never found the trail again, although we spent a consider- able time dodging about between the brush looking and calling for the dogs. There was no wind and the sun was completely clouded over, and we realized we were far from camp, though in what direction it lay we were unable to say. It might have been three hours later that we came upon our own footmarks—. running in almost the same direction as we were then going. In following them in the opposite direction we were back at the camp in a few minutes, where the two dogs were awaiting us. There can be little doubt that we had walked in a huge circle, and all the time bearing to the left, which shows thai everything in the Southern Hemisphere naturally inclines to' wards the left.—! am, Sir, &c., Box 236, Nassau, Bahamas, B.W.I.
May 171h, 1920. E. S. BAZELEY.
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