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A Free Question and Answer Service Bureau of Infor- mation on Outdoor Life and Activities Everywhere and Agventij. expert in charge of the section in whose field it falls. 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 Oi epen in S should be sent, not to this office, but direct to the Upon the Various Commodities Required Therein. Con- ducted for Adventure Magazine by Our Staff of Experts. So only to our general rules for “Ask Adventure,” but neither they nor the magazine assumes any responsi- bility 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. 1. Service free to anybody, provided self-addressed envelop and full postage, not attach21, are enclosed. (See footnote at bottom of page.) Correspondents writing to or from fecreign countries will please enclose International Reply Coupons, purchasable at «ny post-office, and exchangeable for stamps of any country in the Internationai Pustal Union. 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. 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. 5. and intentions. Make your questions definite and specific. State exactly your wants, qualifications Explain your case sufficiently to guide the expert you question. 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 American Waters BERIAH BROWN, 1624 Biegelow Ave., Olympia, Wash. Ships, seamen and shipping; nautical history, seamanship, navi- ation, yachting, small-boat sailing; commercial fisheries of orth America; marine bibliography of U. S.; fishing-vessels of the North Atlantic and Pacific banks. (See next section.) 2. The Sea_ Part 2 British Waters Captain A. E. DINGLE, care Adventure. Seamanship, navigation, old-time sailorizing, ocean-cruising, etc. Ques- tions on the sea, ships and men local to the British Empire go to Captain Dingle, not Mr. Brown. 3. The Sea Part3 Statistics of American Shipping Harry E. RIESEBERG, Apartment 347-A, Kew Gardens, Washington, D. C. Historical records, tonnages, names and former names, dimensions, services, power, class, rig, builders, present and past ownerships, signals, etc., of all vessels of the American Merchant Marine and Government vessels in existence over five gross tons in the United States, Panama and the Philippines, and the furnishing of infor- mation and records of vessels under American registry as far back as 1760. 4. Islands and Coasts Part1 Islands of Indian and Atlantic Oceans; the Mediterranean; Cape Horn and Magellan Straits CaPITAIN A. E. DINGLE, care Adventure. Ports, trade, peoples, travel. (See next section.) 5. Islands Part 2 Haiti, Santo Domingo, Porto Rico, Virgin and Jamaica Groups CHARLES BELL EMERSON, Adventure Cabin, Los Gatos, Calif. Languages, mining, minerals, fishing, sugar, fruit and tobacco production. 6. *& New Zealand; and the South Sea Islands Part1 Cook Islands, Samoa Tom L. Miits, The Feilding Stor, Feilding, New Zealand. Travel, history, customs; adventure, exploring, sport. (Postage two cenis.) 7. South SealIslands Part2 French Oceania (Tahiti, the Society, Paumoto, Marquesas); Islands of Western Pacific (Solomons, New Hebrides, Fiji, Tonga); of Central Pacific (Guam, Ladrone, Pelew, Caroline, Marshall, Gilbert, Ellice); of the Detached (Wallis, Penrhyn, Danger, Easter, Rotuma, Futuna, Pitcairn). CHARLES Brown, JrR., P. O. Box 308, San Francisco, Calif. Inhabitants, history, travel, sports, equipment, climate, living conditions, commerce, pearling, vanilla and coconut culture. 8. * Australia and Tasmania PHILLIP NORMAN, 842 Military Road, Mosman, Sydney, N. . W., Australia. Customs, resources, travel, hunting, sports, history. (Postage ten cents.) 9. Malaysia, Sumatra and Java Fay-Cooper Cote, Ph. D., Field Museum of Natural His- tory, Chicago, Ill. Hunting and fishing, exploring, com- merce, inhabitants, history, institutions. 10. * New Guinea L. P. B. Armit, Port Moresby, Territory of Papua, via Sydney, Australia. Hunting and fishing, exploring, com- merce, inhabitants, history, institutions. Questions regard- ing the measures or policy of the Government or proceed- ings of Government officers not answered. (Postage ten cents.) 11. Philippine Islands Buck Connor, L. B. 4., Quartzsite, Ariz. History, inhabi- tants, topography, customs, travel, hunting, fishing, miner- als, agriculture, commerce. 12._ Hawaiian Islands and China_. F. J. Hatton, 1402 Lytton Bldg., Chicago, Ill. Customs, travel, naturalhistory, resources, agriculture, fishing hunting. * (Enclose addressed envelop with ten cents in stamps NOT atiached) 184 Co DOO (©