It was only with difficulty that I could see any cattle at all, but presently I capped him by asking him if he could see the man in charge of the cattle.

Now, I could not actually see this myself, but knowing that there must be a man with the herd, and that he would probably be up-hill above them somewhere, and as there was a solitary tree above them (and it was a hot, sunny day), I guessed he would be under this tree." And when the incredulous shikari looked through the field-glasses he marvelled at the vision of the white man--the herdsman was under the tree as happy as a hen in a dust-bath.

The uses of inductive reasoning! A good instance of Baden-Powell's skill in "piecing things together" is given in the same excellent manual on scouting.

He was scouting one day on an open grass plain in Matabeleland accompanied by a single native.

"Suddenly," he says, "we noticed the grass had been recently trodden down; following up the track for a short distance, it got on to a patch of sandy ground, and we then saw that it was the spoor of several women and boys walking towards some hills about five miles distant, where we believed the enemy to be hiding.