Correct. Note, however, that this device was banned in the USA and Europe in 1992 after representations from the American Humane Society, the RSPCA, and various other animal welfare organisations (notably including the Society for the Protection of Golfs).
All it is meant to do is to keep you going in a straight line that you have previously determined to be your best bet for escape. Presumably you knew where you were when you were captured.
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Which, of course, may have nothing much at all to do with where one might be when able to try to make a surreptitious departure... :)
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They also had maps tucked in buttons and wrapped around pencils.
Generally, you just had to be sure you were heading in the right direction. You had wing it for the little stuff.
Paul K. Dickman
If one isn't sure where one is to start, the "right direction" might not be obvious...
But, the commented was intended only in a humorous vein as indicated by the smiley...
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