Produced by Steven Gibbs, William Flis, and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team. MY ADVENTURES AS A SPY BY LIEUT.-GEN. SIR ROBERT BADEN-POWELL, K.C.B. _Illustrated by the Author's Own Sketches_ LONDON C. ARTHUR PEARSON, LTD HENRIETTA STREET, W.C. 1915 * * * * * _OTHER WORKS BY_ Lieut.-Gen. SIR ROBERT BADEN-POWELL. SCOUTING FOR BOYS. A Handbook for Instruction in Good Citizenship. 7th Edition. The Official Handbook of the Boy Scouts. YARNS FOR BOY SCOUTS Told round the Camp Fire. 2nd Edition. "There is no gift book that could be put into the hands of a schoolboy more valuable than this fascinating volume, and if you asked the boy's opinion he would probably add, 'No book that he liked better.'"--_Spectator_. SCOUTING GAMES. A splendid collection of Outdoor and Indoor Games specially compiled for the use of Boy Scouts. 2nd Edition. "No one who, as a schoolboy, has read a word of Fenimore Cooper or Ballantyne, nobody who feels the fascination of a good detective story, or who understands a little of the pleasures of woodcraft, could fail to be attracted by these games, or, for that matter, by the playing of the games themselves."--_Spectator_. BOY SCOUTS BEYOND THE SEAS "My World Tour." Illustrated by the Author's own Sketches. "Describes in brightest and most concise fashion his recent tour of inspection amongst the Boy Scouts.... Every boy will read it with avidity and pronounce it 'jolly good.'"--_Graphic_. _Price 1/- each in Pictorial Wrapper, or 2/- each in Cloth Boards. Postage 3d. extra._ C. ARTHUR PEARSON, LTD. * * * * * CHIEF CONTENTS PAGE DIFFERENT DEGREES OF SPIES 11 GERMAN PLANS FOR INVADING ENGLAND 23 JAN GROOTBOOM, MY NATIVE SPY 32 SECRET MESSAGES AND HOW CARRIED 37 SPY SIGNS 39 SECRET PLANS OF FORTRESSES 52 "BUTTERFLY HUNTING" IN DALMATIA 57 HOW SPIES DISGUISE THEMSELVES 61 EXPLORING A FOREIGN DOCKYARD 74 SPYING ON MOUNTAIN TROOPS 79 MORE MOUNTAIN SPYING 86 FOOLING A GERMAN SENTRY 91 A SPY IS SUSPICIOUS 95 HOODWINKING A TURKISH SENTRY 100 TEA AND A TURK 106 WATCHING THE BOSNIANS 110 ENCOUNTER WITH FOREIGN POLICE 116 CAUGHT AT LAST 124 THE ESCAPE 128 * * * * * MY ADVENTURES AS A SPY It has been difficult to write in peace-time on the delicate subject of spies and spying, but now that the war is in progress and the methods of those much abused gentry have been disclosed, there is no harm in going more fully into the question, and to relate some of my own personal experiences.