Major-General R.S.S. Baden-Powell _Frontispiece_

Professor Baden Powell 7

Mrs. Baden-Powell 11

B.-P. reflecting on the After-deck of the _Pearl_ 21

Rev. William Haig-Brown, LL.D. 41

The Dashing Hussar (B.-P. at 21) 61

"Beetle" 79

The Family on Board the _Pearl_ 107

"_Viret in Æternum_" 179

Goal-Keeper 201




CHAPTER I

AN INTRODUCTORY FRAGMENT ON NO ACCOUNT TO BE SKIPPED


You will be the first to grant me, honoured sir, that after
earnestness of purpose, that is to say "keenness," there is no quality