Baden Powell October 1922

Cambridge District Scout Archive

17th October 1922

1922                The Chief Scout, Lieut.-General Sir R.S.S. Baden-Powell is on a visit to Cambridge and yesterday witnessed a Scout rally by the Cambridge & District Boys Scouts in Queens’ College Grove. On entering the Grove the Chief was surrounded by Scouts, who had been in ambush. They cried his Zulu name as they gathered around him and then sang him a chorus of welcome called “Ingonyama”. Translated the worlds sung mean “He is a lion. He is a lion. He is greater than a lion. He is an hippopotamus c22 06 27  Mike Petty

JWR Archivist Mar 2019