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A Free Question and Answer Service Bureau of Infor- mation on Outdoor Life and Activities Everywhere and Upon the Various Commodities Required Therein. Con- ducted for Adventure Magazine by Our Staff of Experts. by mail direct. expert in charge of the section in whose field it falls. o_O exer in: should be sent, not to this office, but direct to the that service may be as prompt as possible, he will answer you So But he will also send to us a copy of each question and answer, and from these we shall select those of most general interest and publish them each issue in this department, thus making it itself an exceedingly valuable standing source of practical information. Unless otherwise requested, inquirer’s name and town are printed with question; street numbers not given. When you ask for general information on a given district or subject the expert may give you some valuable general pointers and refer you to books or to local or special sources of information. Our experts will in all cases answer to the best of their ability, using their own discretion in all matters pertaining to their sections subject sai to our general rules for “Ask Adventure,” responsibility beyond the moral one of trying to do the best that is possible. but neither they nor the magazine assumes any These experts have been chosen by us not only for their knowledge and experience but with an eye to their integrity and reliability. We have emphatically assured each of them that his advice or information is not to be affected in any way by whether a given commodity is or is not advertised in this magazine. 1. Service free to anybody, provided stamped and addressed envelope is enclosed. Correspondents writing to or from foreign countries will please enclose Inter- national Reply Coupons, purchasable at any post-office, and exchangeable for stamps of any country in the International Postal Union. 2. Send each question direct to the expert in charge of the particular section whose field covers it. He will reply by mail. Do NOT send questions to this magazine. 3. Noreply will be made to requests for partners, for financial backing, or for chances to join expeditions. ‘*Ask Adventure’’ covers business and work opportunities, but only if they are outdoor activities, and only in the way of general data and advice. It is in no sense an employment bureau. 4. Make your questions definite and specific. Explain your case sufficiently to guide the expert you question. and intentions. State exactly your wants, qualifications 5. Send no question until you have read very carefully the exact ground covered by the particular expert in whose section it seems to belong. 1. * Islands and Coasts CapTain A. E. DincLe, Hamilton, Bermuda. Islands of Indian and Atlantic oceans; the Mediterranean; Cape Horn and Magellan Straits. (Postage 5 cents.) 2. The Sea Part 1 BERIAH BROWN, 1508 Columbia St., Olympia, Wash. Ships, seamen and shipping; nautical history, seaman- ship, navigation, yachting, ‘small-boat sailing; ~ com- mercial fisheries of North America; marine bibliography of U. S.; fishing-vessels of the North Atlantic and Pacific banks, (See next department.) 3. * The Sea Part 2 CapTaAINn A. E. DINGLE, Hamilton, Bermuda. Questions on the sea, ships and men local to the British Empire go to Captain Dingle, not Mr. Brown. (Postage 5 cents.) 4. Eastern U. S. Part 1 RAYMOND S. SPEARS, Tittle Falls, N. Y. Mississippi, Ohio, Tennessee, Michigan and Hudson valleys; Great Lakes, Adirondacks, Chesapeake Bay; river, lake and road travel; game, fish and woodcraft; furs, fresh-water pearls, herbs, and their markets. 5. Eastern U. S. Part 2 HapssurG Lire, Orlando, Fla. Tennessee, Alabama, Mis- sissippi, N. and S. Carolina, Florida and Georgia except Ten- nessee River and Atlantic seaboard. Hunting, fishing, _ camping; logging, lumbering, sawmilling, saws. 6. Eastern U. S. Part 3 Dr. G. E. HatHorne, 44 Central Street, Bangor, Me. Maine. Fishing, hunting, canoeing, guides, outfits, supplies. 7. Middle Western U. S. Part 1 JosepH Mitts HANSON (lately Capt. A. ture. The Dakotas, Nebraska, Iowa, Kansas. fishing, travel. Early history of Missouri Valley. E. F.), care Adven- Hunting, Ports, trade, peoples, travel.. 8. Middle Western U.S. Part 2 JOHN B. THompson, 906 Pontiac Bldg. Chicago, Ill. Mis- souri, Arkansas and the Missouri Valley up to Sioux City, Iowa. Wilder countries of the Ozarks, and swamps; hunt- ing, fishing, trapping, farming, mining and range lands; big- timber sections. 9. Middle Western U.S. Part3 LARRY ST. JOHN, Saugatuck, Mich. Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, Wisconsin, Minnesota and Lake Michigan. Fishing, hunting, trapping, lumbering, canoeing, camping, guides, outfits, motoring, agriculture, minerals, natural] his- tory, clamming, early history, legends. 1¢. Western U. S. Part 1 E. E. HarriImMan, 2303 W. 23rd St., Los Angeles, Calif. California, Oregon, Washington, Utah, Nevada, Arizona. Game, fur, fish; camp, cabin; mines, minerals; mountains. 11, Western U.S. Part 2; and Mexico Part1 Northern J. W. WHITEAKER, 1505 West roth St., Austin, Tex. Texas, Oklahoma, and the border States of old Mexico— Sonora, Chihuahua, Coahuila, Nuevo Leon and Tamaulipas. Minerals, lumbering, agriculture, travel, customs, topog- raphy, climate, natives, hunting, history, industries. 12. Mexico Part2 Southern; and Lower California C. R. Mawarrey, Apartado 168, Mazatlan, Sinaloa, Mexico. Lower California: Mexico south of a line from Tampico to Mazatlan. Mining, agriculture, topography, travel, hunting, lumbering, history, natives, business and general conditions. 13. ++ North American Snow Countries Part 1 S. E. SANGSTER (‘‘Canuck’’), L. B. 393, Ottawa, Canada. . Height of Land and northern Quebec and Ontario (except strip between Minn. and C. P. Ry); southeastern Ungava * (Enclose addressed envelope with 5 cents in stamps NOT aitached) + (Enclose addressed envelope with 3 cents in stamps NOT attached) 887 COPMICLOO© (C@