Author's Note
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By GillcraftYou can blame B.-P. for this book! It was he who instigated it, or - should I say? - reluctantly allowed me to write it instead of him It is to him I am indebted for many suggestions and much material. I was first intensively interested in the subject during a voyage home from the East in 1912 with G. W. Gayer of the Indian Police, whose book on Foot Prints I have freely used and quoted. Gayer's investigations into the art of Tracking had been stimulated by reading Lord Baden-Powell's book, Aids to Scouting, just as previously my interest had been aroused by another of B-P's books, Scouting for Boys. My thanks are due to Mr. Martin Baker and Scouting for permission to make use of the discovery of a prehistoric cast. To many other Scouters I am indebted for help and encouragement, for permission to reproduce extracts from articles and books already published, and for various practical illustrations. Although all the chapters have been written for the purpose of this book only, a considerable amount of the material contained in them has already appeared from time to time in articles published in The Scout Sign (Bengal), The Scouter, and The Scottish Scout. |