1.   The direction is there, she said when she came down, and she pointed due west.

2.   The footpath is now pointing due south and the panorama is magnificent, with rock faces rising almost vertically from the lake.

3.   Under a new moon a goldfish always points due north.

4.   Footprints, hundreds of them, point due north through the dry washes and scrub thickets around this isolated border town.

5.   Opposing it, pointing due south, is another arrowhead.