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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