One of the peculiarities of the _Wolf's_ cruise was that nobody, excepting the Commander, knew where she was going, when she was going, and how long she was to be away. The majority of the officers, thinking she would probably try to duplicate the raider _Moewe's_ operations, took only enough clothes to last them about three months, and only augmented their supply from the various vessels captured. From one of the captured steamers they got several rolls or bolts of heavy dress goods, but unfortunately for them, they didn't have enough cotton thread to make them up into wearing apparel, although some of them, in more need than the rest, sewed their new suits with ordinary sail twine, similar to that which the grocer uses to tie up his parcels. The cloth was all dark goods, and it looked odd to see the coarse white string stitches against the dark background. Many of the suits were very well cut and fitted in the regular naval style. The _Wolf's_ method of getting away from Kiel was unique. Each day about eleven o'clock in the forenoon, she would up anchor and steam out of Kiel harbour, manoeuvring outside and having gun practice, returning each night to anchor in the harbour. This procedure was kept up for over three weeks, until finally one night the _Wolf_ failed to return. During these three weeks nobody was allowed ashore or to hold any communication with the shore. Even the German naval authorities did not know the date she was to sail, until she had gone. All this goes to prove that the German Naval Department had considerable respect for the Allied Intelligence Department. On leaving Kiel the _Wolf_ went through what is known as the "Big Belt," a passage through Denmark into the Kattegat, from there along the Danish coast across the Norwegian coast, and out to the Atlantic between the Farrows and Iceland. On returning to Germany she merely retraced her course, the only difference being that she passed through the "Little Belt," a very narrow piece of water, one-half of which is German territorial water and the other half Danish.