Captain George E. Nightingale

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NOTED CANADIAN EXPLORER-ADVENTURER WORLD TRAVELER SOLDIER & ENGINEER HUNTER & TRAPPER FOREST RANGER WOODCRAFT EXPERT
CAPTAIN GEORGE E. NIGHTINGALE



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CAPTAIN GEORGE E. NIGHTINGALE
Adventures with Moose, Bear, Deer, Wolves, Lynx, Fox, Marten, Beaver, Otter, Mink, Musquash, Weasel Group, Etc.

CAPTAIN GEORGE E. NIGHTINGALE,
 curator and historian of the Adventurers' Club of Chicago, has had a most interesting career as an explorer, adventurer, world traveler, soldier, engineer, hunter, trapper, forest ranger, as an expert instructor in woodcraft.



As a member of the Canadian forces during the World War, he rendered distinguished service and was decorated.  As a spy and observation scout, he emerged five times from behind the German lines.  He was wounded in action in Belgium.  Because of his record and his ability as a speaker he was sent to America to aid in the sale of Liberty Bonds and was instrumental in disposing of $20,000,000 worth.  Following the World War, he traveled extensively in South America and Northern Africa.



Noted Canadian Woodsman



Born in the wilds of Northern Ontario, Captain Nightingale has lived the primitive life of his forefathers.  Circumstances compelled his family to penetrate those unsettled regions and establish a home in the wilderness.  With five brothers he roamed the forests from Labrador to the McKenzie Basin, hunting game, running trap lines in winter, shooting fast, icy streams in home-made canoes, living out doors all year round in northern Canada and doing it with reasonable comfort.




Many Thrilling Experiences



He has had many thrilling experiences as a Canadian forest ranger, surveyor, trapper and furtrader.  The lassoing of a wounded moose, hand-to-hand encounters with bear, an unusual experience with a giant wolverine, making an escape after being badly mauled by a 2-year-old, 250 pound bear, 6 feet tall, seeing a bloody fight between a bull moose and a large male beaver, spearing mink and muskrat while skating along a river 25 miles an hour, the taming of a 12-year-old wild bear, catching a valuable silver fox barehanded—are some of his amazing adventures.  He has traveled farther in canoes than he has in autos.




Captain Nightingale has made a study of the psychology of wild animals, their habits, conduct, languages, their methods of transmitting their discoveries and suspicions to nearby and far-off members of their breed, their ability to discover the harmful or friendly intentions of any human being who approaches them.




Hunting without Fire-Arms



The Captain tells how he has hunted without fire-arms, using a home-made two-foot spear, a fifty-foot lariat, and a hard maple club.




He describes his experiments dealing with the fitness for human consumption of practically all kinds of wild life, his methods of cooking and preparing certain wild meat for human food, making his own baking powder, and gathering yeast from the soft maple trees.  He tells ways of curing and preparing skins and furs for making shirts, moccasins, headgear, outer clothing, and also how to make a moose skin canoe.




Off the coast of Cuba he had a hair-raising experience with a blue shark, ten feet long.  And he has some very unusual and different fish stories to tell.




At the Adventurers' Camp for Boys at Three Rivers, Wis., Captain Nightingale acted as instructor in pioneering and woodcraft.




Lecture Subjects



ADVENTURES WITH WILD LIFE

The Unusual with Fish and Animals.
PAGES FROM AN ADVENTURER'S LIFE

Experiences in Brazil, North Africa, Europe, etc.


N.B.—For his talks he will appear in the picturesque woodsman costume of the Canadian northwoods.  Talks will be illustrated with two reels of motion pictures of animal life, if desired.



Lecture Comments Are Enthusiastic



Evanston News-Index


NORTH END MEN AGAIN WILL HEAR CAPTAIN NIGHTINGALE.
  Popular Adventurer to Tell of Life in Far North.—The high standard of entertainment and interest in this year's meeting will be maintained in this instance by the return, by popular demand, of Capt. George E. Nighting ale, world traveler and adventurer, who held the audience spellbound on his appearance before the club last April.




Oak Park Oak Leaves


Members of the Sportsmen's Club enthusiastically agreed that the talk by George Nightingale, curator of the Adventurers' Club, naturalist and sportsman, was one of the best they ever had.  Captain Nightingale is an unusually pleasing speaker.  He is very humorous and speaks in such a picturesque manner that one cannot help but see clearly the scene he paints.



N.B.—Many more comments from various parts of the country could be added.  These are typical and recent.