Where is the compass that I need so that I can get a ride with the ferryman. I think I have looked everywhere...but there must be some place I have missed.

Thanks footprints

Hi footprints -- Are you at the docks/bathhouse area? Does the ferryman ask for a compass? According to the walkthrough, he wants

It has occurred to me that you mean the item that will give Geron a direction to follow through the swamp. That's multi-stepped -- you won't find it handy in just one place.

This doesn't help, right?