This chapter examines the extent to which the Scouting movement's Dutch offshoot functioned as a tool of empire in the same way the British organization founded by Lord Baden-Powell did. The Dutch organization copied the imperial obsessions and anxieties of the British original, and produced some of its own, but a close inspection of the material shows that imperial ideologies embraced by the two movements differed. If the British organization revolved around a time-frozen and heavily distorted image of colonized peoples, whose masculinity had to inspire the ‘frail’ English youth and make them into competent administrators and soldiers for the empire, the Dutch organization, which was founded in the 1910s, showed an altogether different picture. The empire was not a place to inspire Westerners, as it was in Baden-Powell's conception, but a place where Westerners went to conquer, administer and rule. To Baden-Powell's stories about Zulu masculinity rites (appropriations of actual Zulu culture, at best ‘reinterpretations’ of things he witnessed when he served in the Boer War), the Dutch scoutmasters added worn-out nineteenth-century textbook stories about Jan Pieterszoon Coen as the seventeenth-century founder of Dutch rule in the Indonesian archipelago.