E-text prepared by Suzanne Lybarger, Emmy, and the Project Gutenberg Online Distributed Proofreading Team (https://www.pgdp.net/) from materials scanned and prepared by Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries (http://www.archive.org/details/toronto) Note: Project Gutenberg also has an HTML version of this file which includes the original illustrations. See 16690-h.htm or 16690-h.zip: (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/6/6/9/16690/16690-h/16690-h.htm) or (https://www.gutenberg.org/dirs/1/6/6/9/16690/16690-h.zip) The material from which this e-text was prepared can be found at Internet Archive/Canadian Libraries. See http://www.archive.org/details/germanraider00trayuoft FIVE MONTHS ON A GERMAN RAIDER Being the Adventures of an Englishman Captured by the "Wolf" by F. G. TRAYES Formerly Principal of the Royal Normal College Bangkok, Siam London Headley Bros. Publishers, Ltd. 72 Oxford Street W. 1 1919. [Illustration: THE AUTHOR BEFORE CAPTIVITY AND WHEN RELEASED.] DEDICATED IN DEEP GRATITUDE TO THE DANISH NAVAL AUTHORITIES, LIGHTHOUSE KEEPERS, LIFEBOATMEN AND THEIR FAMILIES, AND THE KINDLY INHABITANTS OF SKAGEN, DENMARK, WHO SECURED FOR US, AND WELCOMED US BACK TO FREEDOM, AND WHO BY THEIR OVERWHELMING KINDNESS AND HEARTY HELP AND HOSPITALITY LEFT WITH US SUCH KIND AND HAPPY MEMORIES OF THEIR COUNTRY AND COUNTRYMEN AS WILL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN. CONTENTS CHAPTER PAGE I. THE CAPTURE OF THE "HITACHI MARU" 11 II. PRISONERS ON THE "WOLF" 23 III. BACK TO THE "HITACHI MARU" 37 IV. THE GERMANS SINK THEIR PRIZE 51 V. LIFE ON THE "WOLF" 66 VI. ANOTHER PRIZE--OUR FUTURE HOME 82 VII. CHRISTMAS ON THE "IGOTZ MENDI" 97 VIII. RUMOURS AND PLANS 116 IX. EN ROUTE FOR RUHLEBEN--VIA ICELAND 133 X. SAVED BY SHIPWRECK 149 XI. FREE AT LAST 166 ILLUSTRATIONS THE AUTHOR BEFORE AND AFTER HIS FIVE MONTHS' CAPTIVITY (Frontispiece) FACING PAGE "HITACHI" PASSENGERS AND CREW IN LIFEBOATS AFTER THEIR SHIP HAD BEEN SHELLED 22 JAPANESE STEAMSHIP "HITACHI MARU" 64 THE "IGOTZ MENDI" ASHORE AT SKAGEN 150 THE SKAGEN LIFEBOAT GOING OUT TO THE "IGOTZ MENDI" TO BRING OFF THE PRISONERS 166 THE SKAGEN LIFEBOAT BRINGING TO SHORE THE PRISONERS FROM THE "IGOTZ MENDI" 166 AT SKAGEN: GERMAN PRIZE CREW OF THE "IGOTZ MENDI" UNDER GUARD, AWAITING INTERNMENT 180