"It is very difficult for me to locate myself or anything else where there are no points of compass."

How could he ever hope to locate the O-220 and his companions in a land where there were no points of compass?

Every man has to learn the points of compass again as often as be awakes, whether from sleep or any abstraction.

"A little to your right," cried Xodar, for there are no points of compass upon Omean where every direction is due north.

He is a captive in the north, or what he and I call north, for there are no points of compass known to Pellucidarians.

My course lay to the east, along the coast (I shall use the earthly references to points of compass); the mountains were northward, toward the equator.

Points of Compass - A life-size sundial designed and constructed by Superintendent of Parks George Nason in the 1930s.

Broad-fronted broad-bottomed Teutons, they stand in solid phalanx foursquare to the points of compass; they constitute the modern world, they have earned their vantage-ground, and held it through ages of adverse possession.

Of course the Pellucidarians did not know these points of compass as north or south, and even David Innes carried them in his mind more in accordance with the Pellucidarian scheme than that with which he had been familiar upon the outer crust.