"Yes; and I think I understand the trend of your remark now."
"And what is that?"
"You mean to say that if the scouts are able to read, or to become acquainted with the foot prints, they can read them as readily as I would read the faces of my friends."
"That is the exact inference I wish to draw."
"Well, I want to see that done," and Harry followed up Uraso, and watched Muro, and the most intelligent of the scouts, while they carefully stepped over the ground, each being careful while doing so to step in the foot marks of the preceding scout.
"That is a curious thing to do," he remarked, as he turned to John.
"What is that?" the latter asked.
"Stepping in the tracks made by the leader."
"That is for the purpose of keeping the surface of the ground absolutely the same as the tribe left it."
"Well the boys seem to understand detective work pretty well."