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MEETING-PLAC WRITERS “74 \B- Bay and ADVENTURERS “ 24 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. The spirit of adventure lives in all men; the rest is chance. But something besides a common interest holds us together. Somehow a real com- radeship has grown up among us. Men can not thus meet and talk together without 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. Few indeed are the agencies that bring together on a friendly footing so many and such great extremes as here. 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. Your desire to join makes you a member. yy es 2\ ‘ RK: wre N INTERESTING contribution to the discussion on the use of tobacco among the Cossacks: ee Nuevo Laredo, Mexico. Just a line or two regarding the discussion of to- bacco in the issue of May 20, 1924, with particular reference to its use among the Cossacks: LAMB'S observation that the Cossacks might have had the tobacco introduced to them by the Spaniards via Constantinople and the Turks seems based on his statement that the English trade with Russia through the Baltic was negligible in 1630 (the approximate time of the Czar’s ban against the use of tobacco). The real explanation is that to- bacco was introduced to the Russians through an English trading-post established at Archangel on the White Sea. The White Sea had been discovered in the time of the Tudors (the Tudor reign ended with Elizabeth in 1603) and a Russian Company was formed for the purpose of establishing and con- ducting the Archangel post. Yearly fairs were held there where Jamaica sugar, pepper, knives, etc., were traded for hemp, tallow and the “roe of the sturgeon of the Volga,” according to Macaulay. But, continues Macaulay, “there was a secret traffic”—tobacco. Cow’s horns, perforated, served the Muscovite for a pipe. ‘Every Archangel fair’ . . best “Virginia rolls,” “speedily found their way to Novgorod and Tobolsk.” There is the cycle complete—the roe of the’stur- geon of the Cossack country for “Virginia rolls.” The Czar’s ukase, it would appear, was designed more to wipe out a strange new vice (?) than to dis- lodge a custom. Since tobacco was under exten- sive cultivation long before James I died (1625) it would readily appear that the tobacco had been in- troduced to the Volga country through Archangel, possibly as much as 10 years before the Czar’s proscription of 1630.—H. L. W. OM L. MILLS of our A. A. staff, sends a coo-ee across to Camp-Fire from New Zealand and hands us an Australian news- paper clipping setting forth a large snake- story. The Albury district, he explains, is on the border between Victoria and New South Wales. A snake story, which is remarkable even among stories of that class being featured in the Press. A youth named Clifford Scholes, residing in the Albury district has been in hospital five times dur- ing the past few weeks for treatment for snake bites. The remarkable features of the case are that since the fourth bite he has been carefully guarded by an- other boy to prevent the snakes from attacking him, and that the snakes have not been seen by other people. Scholes himself declares that they 175 1OOOLK CO