would warn them not to kindle a fire until they had first examined the
tracks to make sure whether the smoke would frighten the game. Then
someone would follow his trail to render him assistance, providing they
saw that he had blazed a tree. If he did not want them to follow him,
he would shove two sticks into the ground so that they would slant
across the trail in the form of an X, but if he wanted them to follow
he would blaze a tree. If he wanted them to hurry, he would blaze the
same tree twice. If he wanted them to follow as fast as they could
with caution, he would blaze the same tree three times, but if he
desired them to abandon all caution and to follow with all speed, he
would cut a long blaze and tear it off.

Then, again, if he were leaving the game trail to circle his quarry,
and if he wished them to follow his tracks instead of those of the
game, he would cut a long blaze on one tree and a small one on another
tree, which would signify that he had left the game trail at a point
between the two trees and that they were to follow his tracks instead
of those of the game. But if he wished them to stop and come no
farther, he would drop some article of his clothing on the trail.
Should, however, the game trail happen to cross a muskeg where there
were no trees to blaze, he would place moss upon the bushes to answer
instead of blazes, and in case the ground was hard and left an
invisible trail, he would cut a stick and shoving the small end into
the trail, would slant the butt in the direction he had gone.

If traversing water where there were no saplings at hand, and he wished
to let his followers know where he had left the water to cross a
muskeg, he would try to secure a pole, which he would leave standing in
the water, with grass protruding from the split upper end, and the pole
slanting to show in which direction he had gone. If, on the arrival at