The navigating officer of Zelasko's prize crew and the bo'swain were both American navigators, one having been, prior to the war, master of a sailing vessel plying on the Atlantic Coast, and the other a Chief Mate, also in sail, on the Atlantic. At the outbreak of the war both resigned their positions and went home to lend Kaiser Bill a hand. These fellows received eighteen marks per month and have a rating of only "over matrosa," or just one step higher than that of common sailor. Several months later, after we had got better acquainted, I asked this ex-American skipper if he did not think it rather a scurvy trick to sail as Master on American ships during peace times and as soon as war was declared to leave America and help sink the very class of ships that he had hitherto made his living on. He replied by saying that at the time he resigned and went home to enlist America was not in the war, but even had she been, he would have gone just the same. From conversations I had with other ex-American seamen, I am led to believe that at the outbreak of hostilities the German Consuls at the port where their vessels hailed from ordered these men to resign and go home to the Fatherland. I also believe that their fare and expenses were paid. There are many, many cases similar to this, and I believe it would be a good thing for the American shipowners to remember when employing officers and captains to man their vessels after the war is over. The German prize crew made a great fuss over Juanita, she being quite a novelty to them, and I am sure that she had the time of her life. Nobody on board the _Wolf_ had seen a woman or a child for nearly nine months. My wife and little girl were the first woman and child they had taken prisoner. On July 11th, early in the morning, the _Wolf_ picked us up again. It seems that the steamer we saw got away from them. The _Wolf_ put four large life-boats on the water and took off some three hundred cases of benzine and all the provisions and ship's stores we had on board the _Beluga_. When the vessel was taken charge of by the German prize officer, he told me that I would be allowed to take only a few absolute necessities aboard the _Wolf_ when I was transferred; but later, on the 11th, when the _Wolf_ picked us up, Commander Nerger sent over word that I was to be allowed to take everything I wanted. Unfortunately the permission came almost too late, because by this time the German crew had ransacked my quarters very thoroughly and many articles that I would have taken with me for the comfort of my family were gone. Weeks later some of these were recovered. For instance, I had a pair of rubber-soled, leather-topped yachting shoes. Some weeks after joining the _Wolf_ I noticed a man with these shoes on his feet. I called the attention of one of the officers to it and told him that they were formerly my property. The following morning those shoes were just outside my stateroom door, nicely polished.