[Illustration: CAPTAIN CAMERON AND HIS DAUGHTER NITA] TEN MONTHS IN A GERMAN RAIDER A Prisoner of War Aboard the _WOLF_ BY CAPTAIN JOHN STANLEY CAMERON Master of the American Bark _Beluga_ _ILLUSTRATED_ [Illustration] NEW YORK GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY _Copyright, 1918, By George H. Doran Company_ _Printed in the United States of America_ INTRODUCTION Captain John Stanley Cameron, master of the American bark _Beluga_, who tells the story of his great adventure on board the German raider _Wolf_, and subsequently on the prize ship _Igotz Mendi_, in this volume, is of Scotch parentage, thirty-four years old; a smooth-shaven, canny graduate of the "before the mast" school, and prematurely gray. His father is a well-known figure on the Pacific Coast, being the oldest sailing master living in his part of the world. Captain Cameron went to sea at the age of three. At thirteen he was earning his living as an able-bodied seaman, and he has been a master of sailing vessels since he was twenty-one. He figured in the news some few years ago by taking a sailing yacht of seventy-four tons from New York to San Francisco; the smallest vessel of her class to beat through the Straits of Magellan. Since then, Captain Cameron has retired from sea--until his last trip as master of the _Beluga_. In setting down Captain Cameron's story much as it came from his own lips, I have treated it as a simple record of human experience, avoiding any chance of spoiling this bully sea yarn by attempting to give it a literary finish. CYRIL BROWN. ILLUSTRATIONS CAPTAIN CAMERON AND HIS DAUGHTER NITA _Frontispiece_ PAGE THE GERMAN AUXILIARY CRUISER _Wolf_ 22 SHOWING "MANNLICHER" TYPE TORPEDO TUBE 48 FINAL DIVE OF JAPANESE STEAMER _Hitachi Maru_ 48 SHOWING 4.7 "ORDINARY" PORTSIDE GUN 68 BURIAL OF A. JOHNSON, SECOND OFFICER ON AMERICAN BARK _Beluga_ 114 LAST OF THE AMERICAN BARK _William Kirby_ 130 AMERICAN SCHOONER _Winslow_ 148 THE BLOWING UP OF AMERICAN SCHOONER _Winslow_ 148 _Igotz Mendi_ ASHORE ON THE DANISH COAST 162 LIFE-BOAT LEAVING BEACH FOR THE STRANDED _Igotz Mendi_ 162 PART ONE: CAPTURED BY PIRATES TEN MONTHS IN A GERMAN RAIDER PART ONE CAPTURED BY PIRATES Little did I dream when I sailed away from San Francisco in the little bark _Beluga_ that I should finish my voyage, not in Australia after a two months' trip, but in Denmark, on the other side of the world, after a ten months' experience that has never before been equalled in the annals of sea-going history.