On the _Wolf_ our meals were regular and methodically worked out, so that at the end of each day a person had received just so much rationed nourishment. Myself and family received the same food as that served in the Officers' mess. Our breakfast usually consisted of "near" coffee, syrup or treacle and three slices of black bread. I have seen the cook's department roasting this alleged "coffee," and believe it to be nothing more nor less than wheat roasted until it is scorched or burnt, the larger kernels being saved for this purpose. Some years ago I was on a sailing vessel and the supply of coffee gave out. The cook used to take burnt bread and make a substitute for coffee from it that was identical in taste with this coffee on the _Wolf_. Dinner at midday consisted of a soup, a meat-ball composed of canned beef ground fine and mixed with bread crumbs, plenty of preserved peas and carrots. Monday, Wednesday and Friday we had a dessert, usually stewed prunes or a corn-starch mixture. For supper we had tea, bread, and sardine paste, or pickled, cold corned beef. Quite often rice in various disguises was given instead of the "bully beef" at noon. But on Sunday--oh, joy!! A regular, honest-to-Grandma dinner, consisting of asparagus soup, real fresh meat from the refrigerator, evaporated potatoes, a vegetable, prunes and a sweet. This for a regular menu, day in and day out, doesn't look very good, but considering that we were prisoners I don't believe we had any cause to complain. The food we received was the same as that which the Commander and deck officers had, and superior to that of the warrant officers and seamen. [Illustration: SHOWING "MANNLICHER" TYPE TORPEDO TUBE, PORTSIDE FORWARD ON "WOLF".] [Illustration: FINAL DIVE OF JAPANESE STEAMER "HITACHI MARU." 6558 GROSS TONS. CAPT. KOKMOA. CAPTURED SEPTEMBER 26TH OFF MALDIVA ISLANDS, INDIAN OCEAN. SUNK BY BOMBS NOVEMBER 7TH.] The German auxiliary cruiser and minelayer _Wolf_ was formerly a freighter belonging to the Hansa Line, a subsidiary of the Hamburg-American Line; of 6,728 gross tons; single screw, one funnel; two well decks, two telescoping masts, equipped with wireless, double bridge; two Sampson posts on poop and four sets of cargo booms. On the poop rigged from the Sampson posts were two faked cargo booms whose real purpose was to disguise a six-inch gun mounted there. On her boat deck she showed three life-boats, working boats from each side. The vessel was painted all black and had no particular distinguishing marks.