B.-P., having lived straight and hard, soon fought down the fever, and in little more than a week was back again at work.

It is nice to know that during the time of his being on the sick-list Sir Frederick Carrington went regularly to his bedside and sat for a long time, retailing all the cheerful news of the campaign.

Sir Frederick and Baden-Powell, by the bye, are probably the two Imperial officers who know most about South Africa.
During his illness Major Ridley had started off with a column to make war upon the Somabula, and when B.-P.

got about again he was ordered to go in search of this force, with three troopers as an escort, and to take command of it.

"I could picture nothing more to my taste," he says, "than a ride of from eighty to one hundred miles in a wild country, with three good men, and plenty of excitement in having to keep a good look-out for the enemy, enjoying splendid weather, shirt-sleeves, and a reviving feeling of health and freedom." So the man who had only just got off a sick-bed started for a ride into the forest after Ridley's column, and during the ride the twentieth anniversary of his joining Her Majesty's Service came round and brought its reflections for the diary.