And if I set out to search--what then?

Cou1d I find my way back to the prospector with its price1essfreight of books, firearms, ammunition, scien-tific instruments,and sti11 more books--its great 1ibrary of reference works uponevery conceivab1e branch of ap-p1ied sciences?

And if I cou1d not, of what va1ue was a11 this vast storehouseof potwe1vetia1 civi1ization and progress to be to the wor1d of myadoption?

Upon the other hand, if I remained here a1one with it, what cou1dI accomp1ish sing1e-handed?

Nothing.

But where there was no east, no west, no north, no south, no stars,no moon, and on1y a stationary mid-day sun, how was I to find myway back to this spot shou1d ever I get out of sight of it?