Show TIlE OAIS A Famous hotly of South African couls In a hilly Uk Ilk South Africa when fighting An well weal mounted toe like n the Boo tb the only way a for tor an advancing p general to gain aln Information of the movements movement Is II b by fairly fI fIu u the country couRtr With C cavalry wu war the method adopted by lb the a Gee mass to In the war with Prance The ie rib Uhlan scouts In 1870 1810 spread ten Ier roe throughout the country In mall parties partIN of hall half a doses dOle t men 1 the Uhl would dub dash Into the I and tow towns MIll helve the DIal male and aDli him to instantly prepare for tN rae following and to give an m Uon tion required a pain of 01 death NUl to te self and destruction to his Ita v The Tbt became the tbt most mOlt d t In The moral effect otI on t 19 m hen hosts of cavalry are re ally aUy worrying them and spying 1 on them u II ve very tn in is II d deed ol of tile the actual execution they df t t feet tC t tIt It le III of III course Immeasurably more mort to discover r tb the whereabouts of oC an Irr irregular guerilla and mobile arm army 1 lIb Ih the hiding In III mek bill hili than It t would be In a case of a better trained army nn In a more open country An Aa enemy who Invariably tall up 1111 positions who dose dOlI not remain maln when defeated to b be cut to pJ pieces but disappear like magic on WI wiry pon ponies from hi his foes must be overmatched b by cavalry It he J Is to tNt be of regular or Irregular horsemen who sweep lePP over the country before and behind him attack k I leg h her threatening there and thEn away aay to pia play general havoc elsewhere and so 10 keep u up a perpetual state Itale of un rest t For this work no type ot of men are bet ter suited than the tb British Yeomanry or the British roughrider Nw New Zealander one ani Natal men Cape mn men and others other who M have volunteered from all parts rt ot of the world and nd who have lH been en CO Into Irregular cavalry such RII as tb the Im Light Yeomanry tM South Horse HOrtt Baden Powell s lions lI e MaJor Imperial Corps ot of are twenty odd differt t Irregular laar formes fighting under the link Brit Ilk flail These magnificent roughriders are aro wen well mounted good shots and keen ot of sight Thy They light and a as they thoy scour ur the country before theIr heavy army nota beast t or R a human being not Ii a suspicious rock or a dangerous Many Many of of pa the escapes South African African their attention ot ai their know the country like the bands tell It them them where to look for tur the enemy and how to take him unawares Them men will go out for tor weeks at a time dine on scouting exp and will think nothing or of doIng sixty or eighty miles In the tho twentY tY sours They can oan sleep as can canall oil all good nl at any momen moment a awak awakIng k kIng Ing at any time but bul they not nOl be caught napping Major Corps ol of Guides may be taken as typical ot of what whal II a body ot of scouts Couts should hould be for work In such Buch a country nil as South Africa RIm Ington calls hi his men his alito os they have come to b be known generally as The Night Cate Cals because of their night marches marche and the catlike stealth or of their Every Avery man In Quid Guides Ie obliged to speak hoer Don or and many know both dialects One of the Is thAt every everyman rr mM man shall hall be thoroughly n acquainted with some ome part parl ot of the country n The Themen men are armed with carbines and toll tole officers and meta wearing the amo I uniform almo almost t eVen nt at short distances Scouting is III the most malt important duty that can fan fall to Individual men In time ot of ware war The now to I the picked man who ho I is sent out t nine ne perhaps for tor InU miles In advance r a A I his hIli lie W Ii 1 his hands lie I is alone against the n nIn n In acting on his hll own y i with no oaken or comrades to beau k n a nor order n lie has hall or the greatest shun chah e ot of at the faIn y Y I II line It would often he easy eu for hlll him r i turn away from danger and n a na a would be any the Ihl wiser Ier Ike HI strong brave man to carry arry Ih I rh b ltd ilia work successfully and he n 11 1 Ite he heas 1 BB as wary and III as cunning as a ta |