Adventure Magazine Cover, April 3, 1918 — page 190: what you’re looking at

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188 17. Central America EpGAR YOuNG, Sayville, N. Y. Covering Canal Zone, Panama, Costa Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, British Hon- duras, Salvador, Guatemala. Travel, customs, language, game, local conditions, minerals, trading, 18. The Balkans ARTHUR D. HOWDEN SmiTH, Evening Post, 20 Vesey St., New York City. Covering Rumania, Bulgaria, Greece, Serbia, Montenegro, Albania, Turkey (in Europe); travel, sport, customs, language, local conditions, markets, industries. 19. Asia, Southern GorDoN McCrEaGu, care R. J. Neuman, 160 Seaman Ave., Inwood, New York City. Covering Red Sea, Persian Gulf, India, Tibet, Burma, Western China, Siam, Andamans, Malay States, Borneo, the Treaty Ports; hynting, trading, traveling. 20. Japan and Korea ROBERT WELLES RITCHIE, Mountain’Lakes, N. J. Cover- ing travel, hunting, customs of people, art and curios. 21. Russia and Eastern Siberia Captain A. M. Locuwirzky (formerly Lieut.-Col. I. R. A., Ret.), Quartermaster, U.S. Troops, Mercedes, Texas. Cover- ing Petrograd and {ts province; Finland, Northern Caucasus; Primorsk District, Island of Sakhalin; travel, hunting, fish- ing; explorations among native tribes; markets, trade, curios. 22. Africa Partl THOMAS S. MILLER, 1604 Chapin Ave., Burlingame, Calif. Covering the Gold, Ivory and Fever Coasts of West Africa, the Niger River from the delta to Jebba, Northern Nigeria. Canoeing, labor, trails, trade, expenses, outfitting, flora; tribal histories, witchcraft, savagery. 23. Africa Part 2 : GEorGE E. Hott, Castle View, Meriden, Conn. Morocco; travel, tribes, customs, history, etc. 24. * Africa Part 3. Portuguese East Africa R. W. WARING, Corunna, Ontario, Canada, covering trade, produce, climate, opportunities, game, wild life, travel, ex- penses, outfits, health, etc. aan 25. Africa Part 4. Transvaal, N. W. and Southern Rhodesia, British East Africa, Uganda and the Up- per Congo CHARLES BEADLE, Care Paul Tausig & Son, 104 E. 14th St., New York, N.Y. Covering geogranhy, hunting, equipment, Covering Adventure trading, climate, mining, transport, customs, living condi- tions, witchcraft, opportunities for adventure and sport. 26. *_New Zealand, Cook Islands and Samoa Tom L. Mitts, The Feilding Star, Feilding, New Zea- land. Covering New Zealand, Cook Islands and Samoa. Travel, history, customs; opportunities for adventurers, explorers and sportsmen. 27. Australia and Tasmania ALBERT GOLDIE, care of H. E. ROBERTS, 55 John Street, New York. N.. ¥, Covering customs, resources, travel, hunting, sports, politics, history. STANDING INFORMATION For general information on U. S. andits possessions, write Sup’t of Publice-Documents, Wash., D. C., for catalog of all Government publications. For the Philippines and Porto Rico, the Bureau of Insu- lar affairs, War Dep’t, Wash., D. C. For Alaska, the Alaska Bureau, Chamber of Commerce, Central Bldg., Seattle, Wash. For Hawaii, Hawaii Promotion Committee, Chamber of eo ener ey reo H. I. Also, Dep’t of the Interior, ash. 13.-C; For Cuba,’Bureau of Information, Dep’t of Agri., Com., and Labor, Havana, Cuba. Or J. V. Knight, Director, pepe of Cuba News Bureau, Woolworth Building, New ork. For Central and South America, John Barrett, Dir. Gen., Pan-American Union, Wash., D. C. For R. N. W. M. P., Comptroller Royal Northwest Mounted Police, Ottawa, Can., or Commissioner, R. N. W. M. P., Regina, Sask. Only unmarried British subjects, age 22 to 30, above 5 ft. 8 in. and under 175 lbs., accepted. For Canal Zone, the Panama Canal, Wash., D. C. For U. S., its possessions and most foreign countries, the Dep’t of Com., Wash., D. C. *% (Enclose addressed envelope with 3 cents in stamps NOT attached) West African Opportunities Question: —‘‘Will you please tell me something of the conditions of employment and climate in West Africa? I have a chance of getting free passage to Sierra Leone and will thank you very much for the information.” —WILBuR G. LEEKLEy, Albuquerque, New Mex. Answer, by Mr. Miller:—Your inquiry as to climate and employment in West Africa: To secure employment write, stating your age, schooling and general experience to: Niger Company, Surrey House, Victoria Embank- ment, London; Lever Brothers, Royal Lever Build- ings, Liverpool, England, O. & F. Dept. (Work- ing mostly the Congo, also the Niger); The African Association, 43 Castle St., Liverpool, England; Messrs. Pinniock, Ltd., Harley Buildings, 11 Oldhall St., Liverpool; Alex. Miller & Bros., 34 Beaufort St., Liverpool; Messrs. W. B. McIvor & Co., Ltd., Colonial House, Water St., Liverpool; African Traders Co., 42 Drury Buildings, Liverpool; Benin River Produce Co., 23 Alexander Building, Ormond ~ St., West Liverpool, England. Conditions of employment:—The above use men in their small shipyards and machine shops in Africa, men to boss the blacks, deck officers and engineers for their river boats, agents in charge of the trading stations. A clean-cut young fellow, 25 to 30, who can keep simple accounts would not have much trouble securing work, especially if he turned up at the home office. Whites do not go floating around West Africa looking for jobs, but if a white did get stranded he would be put to some- thing by the local agent. The contract usually calls for three years, which is about as much as a white can stand of the cli- mate in one jolt. The pay is unattractive, but most of the companies board their staffs generously, the life offers individual freedom, and if a man works out well it is usual to grant him a bonus at the end of his contract. Climate:—The climate of West Africa is notori- ous, parts of the coasts being known as the white man’s grave. Malaria, canned foods and contribu- tory causes, such as isolation—the sudden cutting off from newspapers, games, movies, companionship and the crowding interests of civilization—and the sun, will ‘‘get” most whites in time. <A few years of it, too, unfits one for any home job again, One shrinks from one’s fellow creatures, or as Kipling says ‘“‘the jungle has them,” and yet those who have been there never shake off the romance of the land and the yearning to hear again the tom-toms of the “mammy dance,” to live under free skies, close down to the primitive, to march at the head of the long column of blacks under the low-hung stars— the magic and mystery of the land. The year is divided into wet and dry seasons. For months the bald, cruel sun crawls across steel- gray skies and one thinks of a cloud and a breath of wind as of Paradise. Then come the rains, an Gomicdooksrteo