Adventure Magazine Cover, October 10, 1921 — page 198: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

188 number of men roam around over ‘California, Ari- zona, Oregon, Nevada, Colorado, and others of these States looking for minerals. Now and then one of them finds a mine. Others search and search. Regarding hidden treasure in Peru: When the Spanish conqueror, Pizarro, first found the Inca race living in the tops of the Andes and numbering several miliion he found them using gold for making household pots and dishes and also using it for or- namental purposes but not for money, as they lived under a communistic system of society. He and his compatriots who followed him sent back many ship-loads of gold to Spain. In order to exact more gold from the natives he took their king captive and held him for ransom. A room of immense size was filled with gold to the height of a man and a half from the floor. He promised that he would turn the king loose after this, but killed him. Men who were with Pizarro and who wrote ac- counts of it say that there were many other pack- trains en route to Cajamarca when the news got out that the emperor had been killed, and that they threw what gold they were carrying into lakes or buried it. Many rumors of this have been passed down. There is said to be a chain with links several inches through and of great length that was so dis- posed of. Be that as it may, little of the hidden gold has ever been found, and the source of so much gold still remains a mystery as the mother lode has never yet been found. While in Peru I tried to drag some of the small crater lakes for gold, but found them extr2mely deep in comparison with their surface dimensions, The Diamantino country of Brazil is the great- est diamond-producing country of South America. These diamonds are of better quality than African diamonds of the same water and bring a better | price on the markets. Quite a number of diamonds have been found in British Guiana, but no distinct diamond-bearing region has been unearthed yet. While at Sao José dos Campos, Brazil, which is between Rio and Sao Paulo and not in the known diamond country of Brazil, an old rancher told me he knew a river about sixty miles from there that was full of diamonds. He showed me a water drinking-glass full of crystals which he said were rough diamonds. I was not prepared to make the trip with him and never found a chance to return. Get booklets from the Pan-American Union, Washington, D. C., as follows: “Brazil,” ‘“‘Peru,” “Bolivia,” ‘‘Ecuador,” and “Colombia.” These will be sent you for 5 cents each. ) Ask Adventure service costs you nothing but reply postage. Duck-Hunting in the Dakotas es still good, though not what it was, and likely not what it will be if present game restrictions encourage wild life as well as bird-lovers hope: Question: —"T would like to know of some place in the Dakotas or in eastern Nebraska where there is good duck-shooting. : Adventure I would like to know how much it would cost to buy or build a shack and if you have to own the iand you build on : : _ Would you also please tell:me when the best season is. 3 Could you also please tell me where a person could go, not too far from here and be reasonably sure of having a chance at a goose?” —J. W. BARRY, Hamp- ton, Ia. Answer, by Capt. Hanson :—In the Fall of the year there is pretty good duck-hunting in many parts of the Dakotas and eastern Nebraska, and some goose- hunting as well. That is the time when the birds are coming down from the north and passing through to the Gulf. The open season in South Dakota for ducks and geese is from September 16th to December 31st, in- clusive. It is illegal to kill these birds at any other time, and there is no Spring hunting season. A non- resident has to pay a hunting license of twenty-five dollars. Game can not be shipped out of the State, and the bag limit is twenty-five birds per day, while no hunter may have in his possession at one time more than fifty birds. These figures apply only to aquatic fowl, the sea- son for game birds being from September 16th to October 15th, inclusive, and the bag limit five birds per day. The numerous prairie lakes extending all over the eastern Dakotas are the best places for ducks and geese. A good many of the smaller ones are posted by the farmers owning them, but there are still many where hunting can be done, and particularly on the larger lakes. | As to building a shack, that is something you would have to arrange with the person owning the land where you wished to camp; he might or might not be willing. The cost of your shack would depend altogether on how many comforts you wanted and how convenient were available materials. A tent, well sheltered and banked, ought to do very well. Put at least five cents postage on all let- ters addressed to ‘‘Ask Adventure’”’ editors who live outside the U.S. Always enclose at least five cents in International Reply Coupons for answer. Water-Proof Tent-Floor Dressing A SIMPLE recipe from an old-timer: Question: —“Is there any real ‘“‘honest-to-good- ness” dressing that can be applied to duck which will keep out water? I wish to use it principally for tent floor. If there is, can I make it any cheaper than I can buy it, and will it retain its usefulness for say a month or six weeks?’”’—R. D. WILSON, Santa Anita, Cal. Answer, by Mr. Thompson :—Soak tent floor in a saturated solution of rain-water and equal parts of pulverized.alum and acetate of lead. If you don’t mind it being stiff, soak it in melted paraffin. But this makes it bulky, cracks and is hard to fold. You can. buy Preservo almost as cheap, and it is better. — | 1LOOOLK C@