A story is told of certain mariners who followed the direction
of their compass, believing it to be infallibly right as
a guide, till they arrived at an enemy’s port, where they
were seized and made slaves. The secret was that the wicked
captain, in order to betray the ship and to beguile them into
obliquities, had hidden a large loadstone at a little distance
on one side of the needle. (Text.)
(1326)
=Guide and Traveler=--See CONFIDENCE.