Mafikeng WHO ARE THEY?????

[Jude]

I have posted a topic on www.scoutingireland.com a message board trying to find out who these guys are go check it out and see if we get a reply

JUDE

[scouterjerry]

i've never used a forum before...

But I don't care who mafikeng is.

 

;-)

[slontwovvy]

I don't think this is what you're talking about, but Mafeking was the African city defended by Baden- Powell during the Boer Wars...

[le Voyageur]

To learn more about Mafeking (1899-1900) read William Harcourt's "Baden - Powell the Two Lives of a Hero"

 

ISBN 0-8395-3594-5

 

quoting directly from Harcourt's

 

"Mafeking - 'the place of stone' - wasn't much of a place, although it was the largest town in north Cape Colony. 'It had', according to J. Emerson Neilly, correspondent to the Pall Mall Gazette, 'the appearance of a place which has been planned and partly built upon, but has not had time to more than half grow.'

It lay shimmering in the African sun, at an altitude of 4,190 feet in the midst of a bare prairie landscape. Around it the stony veld spread in all directions, dipping slightly from the edge of town, rising slightly again towards the horizon, with occasional scattered hills a couple of hundred feet: Cannon Kopje a mile to the south-east, Signal Hill about four miles to the north. And here and there, the monotony broken by a solitary acacia or gum tree, a feature so rare that each tree had a name........" end of quote

 

 

[LauraT7]

The Mafeking Man

 

 

One day in Mafeking a man

Besieged by Boers thought of a plan

To help the Nations youths lead better lives

"I'll teach them how to hunt and track

And all the parts of the Union Jack

And how to whittle wood with big sheath knives".

 

CHORUS

 

He collected kids from the corner of the streets

Little gutter rats

He collected kids from the upper class

Young aristocrats

And he taught them that they could

All live in Brotherhood

Wearing baggy shorts and a funny cowboy hats.

 

He wrote a book, did old B.P.

And very soon found that he

Had little time to spare in a day

So he left the army and began

To work upon his Scouting plan

And get things organized in his own way.

 

-- Thanks to Carol Smith