Written as an illustrated diary for his mother, this is Baden-Powell’s account of the campaign to suppress the Ndebele and Shona risings against the British South Africa Company in 1896. He describes scouting, patrols in the Matopo Hills, sieges and skirmishes, and his own illness, wholly from the colonisers’ side and in the imperial attitudes of its day.
A revealing source on colonial Rhodesia and on the scouting methods its author later made famous. Download the free EPUB.