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1.1 A Man, a Book, an Island - The Hero of Mafeking returns to civilian life and conducts an experiment

568 (;\. As model s for the Boy Scouts,
Baden-Powe11 referred to
frontiersmen and explorers,
the Kni ghts of King Arthur,
Cru saders and ancient gods, a ll
showin g qualities worthy of
carrying on.

The Greek god Hermes was the
messenger god. He was a
pathfinder to unknown places
and was always ready to help.
These attributes represented
what a Boy Sco ut shou ld be.

Three plates were used for the printing
of rhe I 2 ':ic Jamboree stamp, shown
here is etching (plate) number 568.

The =eppelin l l 129 'Hindenburg' left Frankfurt am Main. Germany on 3 May on her first North America flight for 1937.
The largest aircraft ever was 80./ feet Jong and filled wi1h 7 million cubic feet (200,000 m') ofhighly flammable hydrogen.

At Lakehurst, New Jersey, cameramen and reporters waited/or her arrival and recorded one ofthe most famous disasters
in hist0ty. On landing at Lakehurst on 6 A4ay 1937 the airship burst into flames and was destroyed in about 34 seconds.
13 passengers, 22 crew members and one ground crew died. 61 passengers and crew members were lucky to survive.

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Of the I 7,609 pieces ofmail on board, only 357 pieces were salvaged in a burned condition. These
werefonvarded to the Foreign Airmail Division in New York who sent the /./7 covers addressed to
persons in the U.S.A. to the addressees Postmaster with a request to secure a registered receipt.

Cover se11t from Rotterdam, tlt e Netlt erla11ds, to G. Thoole11 ,
Wooster, (0/tio, U.S.A,),fra11ketl witlt a l2'hc Jamboree stamp,

011e 0/011/y 23 salvaged covers witlt D11tcltfrm1ki11g,