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Pebentiig A Free Question and Answer Service Bureau of Infor- mation on Outdoor Life and Activities Everywhere and Upon the Various Commodities Required Therein. Con- ducted for Adventure Magazine by Our Staff of Experts. expert in charge of the section in whose field it falls. So 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 Adventure,” but neither they nor the magazine assumes any responsi- OQ) eset in S should be sent, not to this office, but direct to the 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 attached, are enclosed. (See footnote at bottom of page.) Correspondents writing to or from foreign countries will please enclose International Reply Coupons, purchasable at any post-office, and exchangeable for stamps of any country in the International Postal Union. 3. Send each question direct to the expert in charge of the particular section whose field covers it. He will reply by mail. 3. to join expeditions. is in no sense an employment bureau. 4. Make your questions definite and specific. and intentions. 5. Do NOT send questions to this magazine. No reply will be made to requests for partners, for financial backing, or for chances ‘“‘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 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. Please Note: To avoid using so much needed space each issue for standing matter and to gain more space for the actual meat of “Ask Ad- venture’”’ the full statement of its various sec- tions and of “Lost Traits” will be given only in In other issues only the bare alternate issues. : names of the sections will be given, inquirers to get exact fields covered and names and addresses from full statement in alternate issues. Do not write to the magazine, but to the editors of the sections at their home addresses. The Sea. In Three Parts Islands and Coasts. In Two Parts New Zealand and the South Sea Islands. In Two Parts 8. Australia and Tasmania 9. Malavsia, Sumatra and Java 10. New Guinea ll. Philippine Islands 12. Hawaiian Islands and China 13, Japan Asia. In Four Parts Africa. In Eight Parts 26. Turkey and Asia Minor Balkans. In Three Parts 30. Scandinavia Germany, Czecho-Slovakia, Austria, Poland Great Britian South America. In Three Parts Central America 37, 38. Mexico. In Two Parts 39—45. Canada. In Seven Parts 46. Alaska 47. Baffinland and Greenland 48—53. Western U.S. In Six Parts 54—57. Middle Western U.S. In Four Parts 58—63. Eastern U.S. In Six Parts Radio Mining and Prospecting Weapons, Past and Present. Salt and Fresh Water Fishing Tropical Forestry Aviation Army Matters. United States and Foreign American Anthropology North of Panama Canal Standing Information In Three Parts Personal Re EADERS have been asking for the autobiographies of ‘‘Ask Adventure” editors; and those staff members who be- lieve that a few words about themselves will promote better acquaintanceship all around, are responding to the request. The order in which these autobiographies are printed doesn’t signify anything. They are with- drawn from the file at random: On board the Gauntlet. I am English, born at Oxford in 1874. At sea in deep-water square-rigger at fourteen; followed the sea twenty-two years, commanding square-rigger 185 oO © MICLOOKS (© 5}