THE MARCH TO THE RENDEZVOUS loi 



The foregoing is somewhat of a divergence, but 

 one of the chief lessons we have to, and can, learn 

 during our marches to the objective is to think 

 about, and from this thinking to acquire the habit 

 of deciding quickly — at a glance in fact — how we 

 should 2ise ground under different conditions, and a 

 weighty opinion like Sir Redvers Buller's cannot 

 fail to emphasize the importance of learning this 

 lesson. 



We have cleared the port of disembarkation 

 (represented by the town, village, or house we 

 started from), and the march has begun in earnest. 

 We know the distance we have to go and the 

 average rate of our horse's ordinary walk and trot,^ 

 so we can time ourselves to a nicety, while, as we 

 have studied the map beforehand, and have it with 

 us, we should have no difficulty about the way, 

 which we have determined to find for ourselves by 

 the aid of the map only, and without asking any 

 questions. This, and the correct map reading which 

 it entails, are two elementary and important lessons 

 which the march can teach us. 



What a pull must he have who, either in the Real 

 or the Image, can trot or canter along, map in hand, 

 in an unknown country, and never take a wrong 

 turn. 



The most difficult place in which to find the way 

 is in a town, and there is in most men a certain 



* This is one of the things we should ascertain during the summer, 

 and we should also make a trotting scale for him, vide p. 174 of 

 the text-book oi Military Topography, 1898, Part I. 



