Adventure, February 20, 1922 — page 188: what you’re looking at

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~ OLD SONGS THAT MEN HAVE SUNG — . ROBERT FROTHINGHAM, 745 Riverside Drive, New York City. A department for collecting hitherto unpublished . specimens and for answering questions concerning all songs of the out of doors that have had sufficient virihty to out- their imm te day; chanteys, ‘‘forebitters,’’ ballads —songs of outdoor men—-sailors, lumberjacks, soldiers, _. cowboys, pioneers, rivermen, canal-men, men of the Great - Lakes, voyageurs, railroad men, miners, hoboes, plantation [ee FISHING IN NORTH AMERICA a ae Salt and Fresh Water Fishing _____ J. B. THompson, 906 Pontiac Bldg., Chicago, Ill. Cover- SB fishing-tackle and equipment; fly and bait casting and - advice; live bait; camping outfits; fishing trips. _ MOUNTAINS and MOUNTAINEERING aoe Especially of New England. ARTHUR BENT, Appalachian Pe Mountain Club, 1050 Tremont Bldg., Boston, Mass. STANDING INFORMATION For information on trade in any part of the world, address _ ‘J. L. Bryba, National Foreign Trade Council, 1 Hanover 4 + New York. Pirate Literature _ VP HIS question fell entirely outside the | field that Mr. Barker marked out for himself in ‘Ask Adventure’’—namely, dn- cient weapons, and firearms prior to 1800. __ But it so happens that Mr. Barker is an au- A - a Pp ie Ke \tw ~ Yslands? Along what coast did most of the pirates _ lay for ships? Do you know where I could get any jiterature on lost treasure or about pirates of the olden days? In what years did the pirates get cap- -_~ tured? When was this stopped, in what year? I Oak mean piracy.” —JosEPH M. KocxaA, Clairton, Pa. thority on pirates, and the question gave ES him an opportunity of sharing his knowl- edge with “A. A.” readers... For that rea- ay son he replied to the inquirer at length; and __ for that reason also we are publishing the __~ correspondence: = Question:—“Could you give me a list of great __ pirates’ names and what they did? Could you tell _ me if there is any hidden treasure in the Cocos } Ds | ' ) ‘ - _ Answer, by Mr. Barker:—I am sorry to have to ask you again to look at the conditions under which ee the magazine purports to answer questions. It - «says— : 7 ace “1. Service free to anybody, provided stamped and addressed envelop is enclosed.” Nota postage stamp. I am glad to answer your ~ etter, but it would be well another time to try to comply with the conditions, as some one else might ~ not answer you. -You surely must realize that it would be impossible to answer your queries short of a book. In fact, you should read several books. T am at a loss to understand just why you thought : a’ ' y yr os that I would answer questions on pirates and buried -_ treasure. Iam supposed to answer questions about nis edged weapons and old firearms. - - - However, it so happens that I lecture on pirates as ‘well as on firearms, and will be pleased to answer ~~~ such queries as can be answered briefly, and to refer __ you to a list of books on the subject. I am enclos- ~~ jing one of my lecture circulars, as it will give you - some information relative to pirates, and a cut from -- a very old pirate book, published in London in 1726. py a « | ' » ' Adventure o For general information on U.S. and its possessions, write Supt. of Public Documents, Wash., D. C., for catalog of all Government publications. . _ For the Philippines, Porto Rico, and customs receiverships in Santo Domingo and Haiti, the Bureau of Insular Affairs, War Dept., Wash., D. C. For Alaska, the Alaska Bureau, Chamber of Commerce, Central Bidg., Seattle, Wash. For Hawaii, Hawaii Promotion Committee, Chamber of Commerce, Honolulu, T. H. Also, Dept. of the Interior, Wash., D. C. ; _ For Cuba, Bureau of Information, Dept. of Agri., Com. and Labor, Havana, Cuba. The Pan-American Union may be called upon for general information relating to Latin-American matters or for specific data. Address L. S. Rowe, Dir. Gen., Wash., D. C. : For R. C. M. P., Commissioner Royal Canadian Mounted Police, Ottawa, Can. y unmarried British subjects, age 18 to 40, above 5 ft. 8 in. and under 175 lbs. me Canal Zone, the: Panama Canal Comm., Wash., For U. S., its possessions and most foreign countries, the Dept. of Com., Wash., D. C. = ; I wish to state right here that the magazine Adventure has published a great many stories by J. Allan Dunn and by Rafael Sabatini, concerning pirates, which are taken from real history, and from which you should get a very good idea of them. Naturally I have not space to go into hidden treasure. There probably is considerable in the United States and in the world. You should read “The Book of Buried Treasure,” by Ralph D, Paine, published by Sturgis & Walton Company of New York, 1911. This will tell you about the most famous buried treasures known of, including that of Cocos Island. What you have been reading lately in Mr. Hearst’s Sunday papers is some fact, garbled with a great deal of fiction, and with people, dates, and identities all mixed up. For instance, “The wicked Baron Dampiere”’ never existed save in the person of Captain William Dampier, an English sea- captain and buccaneer, who sailed in the seven- teenth and eighteenth centuries, and left the best of all the buccaneer accounts ever printed and extant. To tell you what the great pirates did would take several books. In my library, among others, I have the following, some of which you should be able to obtain at some public library. They will tell you what you wish to know. “A GENERAL HISTORY OF THE PYRATES from Theft First Rise and Settlement in the Island of Providence, to the Present Time. With the Remark- able Actions and Adventures of the two Female Pyrates MARY READ and ANNE BONNE,” by <apann Charles Johnson. (Published, London, 1726.) 2 Vols. “THE HISTORY OF THE BUCANIERS OF AMER- pei by see Esquemeling. (Published, London, — 1721.) 2 Vols. The above contains the adventures of LeGrand, Lolonois, Roche Braziliano, Bat the Portuguese, Pierre Francois, Montbars, Sir Henry Morgan, etc., by Esquemeling. Of Captains Sharp, Watlin, Sawkins, Coxen and others 1n- the South Sea, by Basil Rin e. Of de Graff, Van Horn, etc., by venau de Lussan. _ Of the Sieur de Montauban, Captain of Freebooters in Guinea, by Himself. : ; - There is a Si of the above published.in 1853, by Benja- min B. Mussey & Co., 29 Cornhill, Boston. “HISTORY OF THE BUCCANEERS OF AMERICA,” by James Burney, F.R.S. (Published by Swan, Sonnenschein & Co., London, 1891.) _ c The above is also reprinted by ‘““The Unit Library, Lim- ited,"’ Leicester tienes: London, 1902. | Eomichbooks é ‘4