Adventure, January 20, 1922 — page 187: what you’re looking at

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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. expert in charge of the section in whose field it falls. So that service may be.as prompt as possible, he will answer you by mail direct. 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 ngme 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 valuablé 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 a to our general rules for ““Ask Adventure,’”’ but neither they nor the magazine assumes any responsibility beyond the moral one of trying to do the best that is possible. 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. OQ ener in’ should be sent, not to this office, but direct to the 1. Service free to anybody, provided stamped and addressed envelop 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. State exactly your wants, qualifications and intentions. Explain your case sufficiently to guide the expert you question. 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. The Sea Part 1 BreriAu 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 section.) 2. * The Sea Part 2 Captain A. E. Dincre, Hamilton, Bermuda. Questions on the sea, ships and men local to the British Empire go to Captain Dingle, not Mr. Brown. (Postage § cents.) 3. *% Islands and Coasts CapTAIN A DiIncLE, Hamilton, Bermuda. Islands of Indian and Atlantic oceans; the Mediterranean; Cape Horn and Magellan Straits. Ports, trade, peoples, travel. (Postage 5 cents.) 4. *& New Zealand; and the South Sea Islands Part 1 Tom L. Mitts, The Feilding Star, Feilding, New Zealand. New Zealand, Cook Islands, Samoa. Travel, history, cus- toms; adventure, exploring, sport. (Postage 8 cents.) 5. South Sea Islands Part 2 CHARLES Brown, JR., 213 ESt., San Rafael, Calif. French Oceania (Tahiti, the Society, Paumoto, Marquesas) ; Islands of Western Pacific (Solomons, New "Hebrides, Fiji, Tonga); of Central Pacific (Guam, Ladrone, Pelew, Caro- line, Marshall, Gilbert, Ellice); of the Detached (Wallis, Penrhyn, Danger, Easter, Rotuma, Futuna, Pitcairn). Natives, history, travel, sports, equipment, climate, living conditions, commerce, pearling, vanilla and coconut culture. 6. * Australia and Tasmania ALBERT GOLDIEF, Sydney Press Club, 51 Elizabeth St., Sydney, Australia. Customs, resources, travel, hunting, sports, history. (Postage 5 cents.) 7. Malaysia, Sumatra and Java Fay-Cooper Core, Ph. D., Field Museum of Natural His- tory, Chicago, Ill. Hunting and fishing, exploring, com- merce, natives, history, institutions. . New Guinea Dr, ALBERT BUELL Lewis, Field Museum of Natural His- tory, Chicago, Ill. Hunting and fishing, exploring, com- merce, natives, history, institutions. 9, Philippine Islands Buck CONNOR, 5444 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, Calif. History, natives, topography, customs, travel, hunting, fish- ing, minerals, agriculture, commerce, 10. Hawaiian Islands and China F. J. Hatton, 103 W. Jackson Blvd., Chicago, Ill. Cus- toms, travel, natural history, resources, agriculture, fishing, hunting. li. Japan Grace P. T. Knupson, Castine, Me. Commerce, politics, people, customs, history, geography, travel, agriculture, art, curios. 12. Asia, Southern CAPTAIN BEVERLEY GIDDINGS, 1315 Josephine Street, New Orleans, La. Arabia, Persia, India, Tibet, Burma, western China, Borneo. Hunting, exploring, traveling, customs. 13. Russia and Eastern Siberia Major A. M. Locuwitzxy (formerly Lieut.-Col. I. R. A., Ret.), care Adventure. Petrograd and its province, Finland, northern Caucasus, Primorsk district, island of Sakhalien. Travel, hunting, fishing; explorations among native tribes; markets, trade, curios. 14. Africa Part 1 THomas S. MILLER, Carmel, Monterey Co., Calif. Gold, Ivory and Fever Coasts of West Africa, Niger River to Jebba, northern Nigeria. Canoeing, labor, trails, trade, expenses, outfitting, flora, tribal histories, witchcraft. 15. * Africa Part 2 Transvaal, N. W. and Southern Rhodesia, British East, Uganda and the Upper Congo CHARLES BEADLE, Ile de Lerne, par Vannes, Morbihan, * (Enclose addressed envelop with § cents—in Mr. Beadle’s case 12 cents—in stamps NOT attached) 185 CORMICLOOOKS (E©) So ae od awil