SPORT IN WAR 

 In the first place, scouting played 

 a very prominent part in the pre- 

 liminaries to major operations, and 

 gave opportunities for the exercise 

 of all the arts and resources of wood- 

 craft, coupled with the excitement 

 incidental to contending against wild 

 beasts of the human kind men of 

 special cunning, pluck, and cruelty. 



This scouting, to be successful, 

 necessitated one's going with the 

 very slenderest escort frequently 

 with one man only, to look after the 

 horses and for long distances away 

 from our main body, into the dis- 

 tricts occupied by the enemy. Thus, 

 one was thrown entirely on one's 

 own resources, with the stimulating 

 knowledge that if you did not main- 

 tain a sufficient alertness of observa- 

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