Judging Distance
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Section titled “Source text”Take a patrol and station its members about in different directions and with different background, according to the colour of their clothes; then take another patrol to judge distance of these points. Two competitors are sent in turn to three different points. At the first point they are merely given the compass bearing of the next one, which is some three hundred yards distant, and so on in succession. At each point each pair of scouts notices regarding the enemy—first, how many visible; second, how far off; third, what is their compass direction; fourth, how they are clothed. The best answers win provided they are within the specified time. The time allowed should be one minute for observation at each station, and half a minute for each bit of running.
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- Traits: Not stated in the source
- Source: Robert Baden-Powell, Scouting for Boys (1908)
- Printed pages: 196–197
- Digital edition: Digital edition · Source record
- Open the edition at the relevant page: p. 196
- Read the automatic translation: sfb-030