What is "south by east"

Usage examples of "south by east".

You'd do better to follow the track through the woods, south by east.

I had enough sense, though, to know which way I wanted to go - south by east at first to skirt Meerut city, and then south by west until I struck the Delhi road at a safe distance.

Once the ship had been put about - which was done with creditable speed, in near silence - and once she was heading south by east under reefed courses with the wind a little abaft the beam, as inconspicuous as a ship of the line could ever hope to be, her captain's station was in the foretop with the pilot, an attentive midshipman on deck to relay his orders.