You then tell her to squirt it as you direct into the wound, while you prize around with a feather." After the breaking of Wedza there was work to be done in Mashonaland, and then, when the rebellion had been crushed and the colonist was able to search fearlessly among the charred beams of his homestead ere setting about building anew, the gallant Baden-Powell turned his face towards Old England.

Before leaving South Africa, however, he spent the Christmas Day of that memorable 1896 in Port Elizabeth.

"After breakfast," he writes in his diary, "to church.

Everything exactly ordered as if at home: the Christmas Day choral service with a good choir and a fine organ.

And as the anthem of peace and goodwill rolled forth, it brought home to one the fact that a year of strife in savage wilds had now been weathered to a peaceful close." Then came the voyage across the 6000 odd miles of ocean with Cecil Rhodes, Sir Frederick Carrington, and other interesting people.