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Scouting Around the World        Nonvay

Baden-Powe ll         v is ited

Norway on several

occasions: in 19 11 , 19 12,

1927, 1933 and 1938.

In 1933, Lord and Lady
Baden-Powell led a
contingent of 65 0 Guides
and Scouts on an "A rgosy of
Peace," a crui se to the
nations of the Balti c. The
crui se carried them fro m
England to th e Netherlands,
Poland , Lithuani a, Latvia,
Estoni a, Finland, Sweden,
Norway and home.

In 1939, Baden-Powe ll and       Postcard depi ctin g the Frognerseteren camp fire in th e evenin g of 25 August, 1933. Several
Olave moved to a cottage he      tho usand Boy Scouts and Gi rl Guides participated, and eve n HRH Queen Maud showed up'
had commi ss ioned in Nyeri ,
Kenya, near Mo unt Kenya,          From left to ri ght: BP, Lady BP, Kari As, Josefine Barmann and Hans Mo ll er Gasmann .
wh ere he had prev iously
been to rec uperate. BP died
peacefull y there in 1941.

               Air mail letter from "T0NS BERG 20.8.39", addressed to Baden-Powe ll at Nyeri , Kenya
                 Transit postm ark "NY ERI KEN YA 26 AU 39" on reverse, and re-directed to N'gong.
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