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1.1 A Man, a Book, an Island - The Hero of Mafeking returns to civilian life and conducts an experim ent

Pale blue, plate /, pas. 4. Deep blue, plate II, pas. 13. Pale blue, plate Ill, pas. 36, Pe1fora tio11 shiji.
showing right-hand extremity of
the 'broken value tablet' variety.

Cadet-Sergeant Warner Goodyear of th e Mafeking Cadet Co rp s features
on the Id stamp, whi le Colonel Baden-Powell is depicted on th e 3d sta mp.

Medium blue. Deep blue.

After the siege, when Baden-Powell wrote hi s "Scouting for Boys", and pl anned hi s firs t experimental Boy
Scout camp at Brownsea Island, he recognised the value of the duti es and effort of the Mafek ing Cadet Corps.

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Lei/er written by Robert Baden-Powell, and sent from Cape Town 1900 to his brother in London.
Endorsed "OA. Service R. Baden Powell Maj.Gen/." (fi'ee postage privilege for troops on active service).

Baden-Powell's small force res isted an army at least three times more
numerous, thus enab ling th e main body of the British troops to regroup for
a counter-attack. Mafekin g was relieved after a siege of 2 17 days.

After the relief of Mafekin g, Robert S.S. Baden-Bowe ll was rai sed to th e rank
of Major-General , and found himse lf a hero in the eyes of hi s countrymen.