Following the Signs in the Sketch
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Section titled “Translated text”The patrol leader hands the scouts a sheet of paper on which only conventional symbols of various terrain features are drawn, in the order in which the marching patrol may encounter them. The route of the march is unknown to the scouts, as only the initial direction is given, e.g., North-West. The sheet may contain, for example, a drawing of a roadside cross, then a field road, a factory chimney, a bridge, etc. The last symbol is the destination of the march.
Based on this sheet, the patrol must reach the destination within the specified time. Sometimes this is easy, but at other times they get stuck when they encounter several similar objects and do not know which one is marked on the sheet. Then the scouts must scatter in different directions until one of them finds the next sign.
Alternatively, such a sheet can be given to each member of the patrol, in which case they are sent off one after another at 10-minute intervals, and the time of arrival of each is recorded at the destination. Who will arrive within the prescribed time?
The exercise becomes more difficult if, in addition to reaching the designated point, the scouts are also tasked with drawing a sketch of the route taken$^{1}$.
The exercise is made even more difficult if this sketch is drawn from memory during a halt.
On the return journey, the sketches are compared with the terrain, and inaccuracies or errors are marked on them. This is done not by the scout who drew the sketch in question.
Source scan: Polona / National Library of Poland, marked “Public domain”. View scan — PDF pages 102–103.
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- Traits: Not stated in the source
- Source: Zygmunt Wyrobek, Harcerz w polu: zabawy i gry terenowe (1946)
- Printed pages: 96–97 / PDF 102–103
- Digital edition: Digital edition · Source record
- Open the edition at the relevant page: p. 96
- Read the source text: hwp-036