Every man is liable to think, under such conditions, that he is in a worse case than his fellow-captives, and there were certainly examples of very hard luck amongst us. Mention of a few cases might be of interest. The American Captain had abandoned his sea calling for six years, and decided, at his wife's request, to make one more trip and take her to see her relatives in Newcastle, N.S.W. They never got there, but had eight months' captivity and landed in Denmark instead. Many sailors had left the Atlantic trade after encounters with the U boats in that ocean, only to be caught by the _Wolf_ in the Pacific. One of the members of the Spanish crew had been a toreador, but his mother considered that calling too dangerous and recommended the sea as safer. Her son now thinks otherwise; perhaps she does too! The Captain of a small sailing ship from Mauritius to West Australia, in ballast to load timber, saw the _Wolf_ when a day off his destination. Not knowing her, he unwisely ran up the Red Ensign--a red rag to a bull, indeed--and asked the _Wolf_ to report him "all well" at the next port. The _Wolf_ turned about and sunk his little ship. Although the Captain was at one time on the _Wolf_ almost in sight of his home in Mauritius, his next port was Kiel, where it is to be feared that he, an old man of seventy, was the reverse of "all well." One of our fellow-prisoners had been on the P. & O. _Mongolia_ when she was sunk by one of the _Wolf's_ mines off Bombay. Later on, on the _Hitachi_, he was caught by the mine-layer herself! But he defeated the enemy after all, as he escaped on the _Igotz Mendi_! One of the seafaring men with us had already been torpedoed by the Huns in the Channel. Within a fortnight he was at sea again. The next time he was caught and his ship sunk by the _Wolf_ off New Zealand. He also escaped on the _Igotz Mendi_, and when last seen ashore was dying to get to sea again, in a warm corner, so he said, so that he could "strafe the Huns" once more. They had held him prisoner for eight months, and he had some leeway to make up.