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How are you going to tell Mr. Gordon that we hiked out of here , and headed due west from this point ? '' `` Oh ! '' answered Paul , readily enough , `` I might use just the letter W ; but you see that would n't do for an Indian , who does n't know what it means . To him west means the setting sun , just as east is signified by its rising , and noon by an overhead disc . So suppose I draw a rude hand , with the finger pointing toward a sun that is half down behind a line ? Would n't that be apt to tell him we went west from here ? '' `` Why , dead sure .