Adventure Magazine Cover — page 194: what you’re looking at

Machine-transcribed from the original scan — historical spelling and the odd misread are preserved.

Our Camp-Fire came into bein wy 2 The Camp 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 circumstance. The spirit of adventure lives in all men; the rest is chance. But something besides a common interest holds us together. Somehow a real comradeship 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 riggers, from Captain Dingle. The differences in statements seem to arise from the fact that barques are only partly square-rigged. The Standard Dictionary, which is our official guide in the office, spells it “bark” but out of deference to the deep-sea sailors, who abhor that spelling, we abandon the Standard in this case. Even to landsmen there is far more appeal in the older spelling. Halifax, Nova Scotia. DEAR Camp-FIRE:—Just to correct Captain Rotch’s statement regarding six-masted square- riggers, permit me to say that there are no six- masted square-riggers, nor has there ever been one in the sense of the term relating to real sailing-ship rigs. The Great Eastern had six masts, and some were square-rigged; but neither Gordon Young nor MORE as to six-masted square- ” Captain Rotch had that abortion in mind. The vessels Captain Rotch names were all five-masters. I have seen Preussen (not Prussian) many times, also Kobenhavn and France, and have photos of— haven’t photo here, so can’t say the first name— Rickmers* (not Rickmas), and Potosi, five-masted barque. All had five masts, and Preussen was a full-rigged ship. The rest barques. Lloyd’s Regis- ter will bear this out, even if many of Camp-Fire readers have not personally fallen in with some of the ships mentioned. As for six-masted schooners being fairly common, there were never more than six, I am sure. And the last one on the Atlantic side was burned during the winter of 1925-6. There may be two left on the Pacific side, but it is doubtful if there are more afloat now. And of course there was the one seven-masted failure, Thomas W. Lawson, lost in the English Channel some years ago. She would “neither steer, stay nor wear,” and was never a sailing ship in anything but name. I passed her *P. S.—Sophie Rickmers was a steamer now named Westphalia. 192 COmICLOOO CO