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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 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 only 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. Q ena in S should be sent, not to this office, but direct to the 1. Service free to anybody, provided self-addressed envelop and full postage, not attached, - are enclosed. Correspondents writing to or from foreign countries will please en- close International 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 department whose field covers it. He will reply by mail. Do NOT send questions to this magazine. 3. No reply 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. Please Note: To avoid using so much needed space each issue for standing matter and to gain more space for the actual meat of ° ‘Ask Ad- venture” the full statement of its various sec- tions will be given only in alternate issues. In° other issues only the bare names of the sections will be given, inquirers to get exact fields cov- ered and names and addresses for full statement in alternate issues. Do not write to the magazine, but to the editers of the sections at their home addresses. The Sea. In Two Parts . Islands and Coasts Two Parts Australia and Tasmania . Malaysia, Sumatra and Java New Guinea 9. Philippine Islands 10. Hawaiian Islands and China 11. Japan 12. Asia, Southern New Zealand and the Seuth Sea Islands. In 37. Alaska 38. Baffinland and Greenland 39—44. Western U.S. In Six Parts 45—48. Middle Western U.S. In Four Parts 49—52. Eastern U.S. In Four Parts Weapons, Past and Present. In Three Parts Old Songs That Men Have Sung Fishing in North America Mountains and Mountaineering Standing Information The Roer Elephant Gun N INTERESTING weapon of pioneer days in South Africa: Question:—“I have frequently come across in books references to the roer or elephant gun used by the Dutch in South Africa, but I have never read a description of it. All I know is that it was a very heavy, single-barrel, smooth-bore gun, using a very large ball or ‘a handful of bullets.’ What was average weight of gun? Length of 13—19. ica. In Seven Parts - 20. Turkey and Asia Minor barrel? Bore? Weight of ball? Charge of powder? La aliens: inte Parts Did stock extend to end of’barrel? Was stock A. Germany, Czecho-Slovakia, Austria, Poland _—_‘fastened with bands like a musket? Was it flint or 25, i. South America. In Two Parts percussion lock? cap sae - Sentra egies Any other information by w such a gun can Salles sarees : ie Dab bird. be recognized and identified? 184 COMICOOKS