Adventure Magazine Cover — page 180: what you’re looking at

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. Sak “eA RRA y SN V/ reer D41- —y¥ - SS - _. A Free=to-All for Reader S, riters and Adventurers. Our Camp-Fire came into being May 5, 1912, with our June issue, and since then its fire has never died down. Many have gathered about it and they are of all classes and degrees, high and low, rich and poor, adventurers and stay-at-homes, and from all parts of the earth. Some whose voices we used to know have taken the Long Trail and are heard no more, but they are still memories among us, and new voices are heard, and welcomed. We are drawn together by a common liking for the strong, clean things of out-of- doors, for word from the earth’s far places, for man in action instead of caged by cir- cumstance. But something besides a common interest holds us together. Men can not thus meet and talk together without radeship has grown up among us. The spirit of adventure lives in all men; the rest is chance. Somehow a real com- growing into friendlier relations; many a time does one of us come to the rest for facts and guidance; many a close personal friendship has our Camp-Fire built up between two men who had never met; often has it proved an open sesame between strangers in a far land. Perhaps our Camp-Fire is even a little more. Perhaps it is a bit of leaven working gently among those of different station toward the fuller and more human understand- ing and sympathy that will some day bring to man the real democracy and brotherhood he seeks. and such great extremes as here. Few indeed are the agencies that bring together on a friendly footing so many And we are numbered by the hundred thousand now. If you are come to our Camp-Fire for the first time and find you like the things we like, join us and find yourself very welcome. There is no obligation except ordinary manliness, no forms or ceremonies, no dues, no officers, no anything except men and women gathered for interest and friendliness. ENNETH HOWELLS story in this issue is dedicated to H. Bs S., a ship- mate of a hundred thousand miles. OU’LL remember the article in which Captain Dingle gave his experience in sailing his sloop Gaunilet from New York to Bermuda single-handed, a feat never be- fore accomplished except by some one a century or half-century ago. You’ll re- member that a hurricane left him afloat but helpless, without water or food. But he failed to mention one little incident con- nected with his dog. Here is a letter written to Captain Dingle last Summer by one of the men on the ship that towed him the few remaining miles to Your desire to join makes you a member. Bermuda. There is also another letter from some one else who was serving on that ship at the time, but I put it in the Camp-Fire cache and will give it to you when it comes - to light. He, too, mentioned the dog inci- dent Captain Dingle skipped. That little incident and the fact that Captain Dingle skipped it seem to me a tolerably complete character-reference that any of us would be glad to shoulder. Charlestown, West Virginia. Curiosity seems to have the better of me, so am writing to you. WHILE serving aboard the U. S. S. Niagara I witnessed the rescuing of a man at sea who to my idea was a Captain Dingle. We found him while scouting Bermuda waters in search of another 174 CORNICLOO© (F@