The Gates of the Morning

As she drew near she saw that the canoe man was Taori. She hailed
him and he told her that he had lost direction, then, telling him to
follow, she put her canoe about and struck the water with the
paddle. Though from the elevation of a canoe the horizon showed
nothing of the girding reef, her instinct for direction told her
exactly how they lay with regard to all the reef points. The
marvellous compass in her brain that never failed, and could have
steered a ship on the high seas as well as a canoe in Karolin
lagoon, told her that the village on the north beach lay over there,
and over there her home on the south beach, that the matamata trees