Quotation from: The Cruise of the Snark

Written by: Jack London


"The True Course is the angle made with the meridian by a straight
line on the chart drawn to connect the ship's position with the
place bound to."


Just what I wanted. The Snark's position was at the western
entrance of the passage between Viti Levu and Mbengha. The
immediate place she was bound to was a place on the chart ten miles
north of Vatu Leile. I pricked that place off on the chart with my
dividers, and with my parallel rulers found that west-by-south was
the true course. I had but to give it to the man at the wheel and
the Snark would win her way to the safety of the open sea.

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