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Updated: April 30, 2025

Baden-Powell's familiarity with the names of his men's horses reminds one of his difficulty in swallowing horse-flesh during the hungry days with the Shangani Patrol: "It is one thing to say, 'I'll trouble you to pass the horse, please, but quite another to say, 'Give me another chunk of D15." He is a man who can grow very nearly as fond of his troop's horses as of his own.

Harold Begbie - The Story of Baden-Powell: 'The Wolf That Never Sleeps'