At Pirate Cove naked New Guineans, men, women and children, came out to the _Wolf_ in thirty feet long canoes for tobacco, which was the only understandable word they could say. They offered to swap parrots, pigs, cocoanuts, sugar cane, bits of coral, woven mats of garish colours and queer pattern, showing whales, birds and primitive human figures. The _Wolf's_ officers got first whack at the bargains and went in strong for the fancy mattings, but when they got them aboard found them full of native vermin. These souvenirs for their wives and sweethearts were promptly turned over to the antiseptic department and cleaned, for the _Wolf_ had on board a complete dis-lousing plant through which all new prisoners were put, whether they needed it or not. The German sailors had second choice after their officers and went in strong for parrots and cocoanuts. The prisoners, who could buy tobacco at the _Wolf's_ canteen, if they had any money, had last choice of the New Guinea merchandise. I had no money on the _Beluga_, having sent mine by draft to Sydney, but I had stacks of clothes, and to get a little ready "canteen" money I sold some of them, the _Wolf's_ officers paying me $25.00 for second-hand suits and $3.00 for second-hand shoes. The natives were cleaned out by the _Wolf_. Among the purchases was an alleged New Guinea pig, which had the legs and body of a deer and the head of a porker--and it had fur, too. God! I never saw anything like it. It didn't have an orthodox corkscrew tail but a compromise between a pig's and a deer's tail. The pig mascot was given the freedom of the _Wolf_ and dashed if it didn't lick every dog on the ship. We had seven dogs on board, taken from sunken ships--dachshunds, fox terriers, all sorts--and the pugnacious deer-pig cleaned them all up. But the Germans were too much for it. After two months in German company the pig couldn't stand it any longer and, after the slaughter of the _Hitachi Maru_, of which it was an eyewitness, it committed suicide by leaping down an open hatch to its death fifty feet below. The Germans buried the pig at sea with military honours.