We also found aboard the ship a very handsome race horse. By a shot through the head, this noble creature was spared the agony of death by drowning. But our sympathy was hardly sufficient to extend to all the many mounts for artillery, which occupied as many neatly numbered stalls that had been built into the ship. They had to be left to become the prey of sharks a half hour later. The ship's crew was sent aboard our "junkman."... During the next few days our business flourished. It was carried on in this way: As soon as a steamer came in sight, she was stopped, and one of our officers, accompanied by ten men, was sent aboard her. It was their duty to get the steamer ready to be sunk, and to arrange for the safe transfer of the passengers and crew. As a rule, while we were still occupied with this, the mast head of the next ship would appear above the horizon. There was no need of giving chase. When the next steamer had come near enough to us, the _Emden_ steamed off to meet her, and sent her a friendly signal by which she was induced to join our other previously captured ships. Again an officer and men were sent off, boarded her, got her ready to be sunk, and attended to the transfer of all hands aboard her, etc., and, by the time this was accomplished, the mast head of the third ship had usually come in sight. Again the _Emden_ went to meet her, and so the game went on.... V--SEA TALES FROM CEYLON TO CALCUTTA In this way we cleaned up the whole region from Ceylon to Calcutta. In addition to our old companion, the _Markomannia_, we were now accompanied by the Greek collier _Pontoporros_, which, in the meanwhile, had relinquished the rôle of "junkman" to the _Cabigna_. The latter was an English steamer carrying an American cargo, the destruction of which would have resulted in nothing but unnecessary charges. The _Cabigna_ continued with us for several days, although she, the _Markomannia_, and the _Pontoporros_ were not the only companions of the _Emden_ during that night. We had captured more prizes, whose destruction, however, was deferred to the following day in consideration of the passengers, because of the darkness, and the high seas running. All told, we had six attendants that night. Three of these disappeared in the sea on the coming morning, and the _Cabigna_ was discharged to land her passengers. Aboard the _Cabigna_ were the wife and little child of the captain. The position at sea, where the other steamers had been sent to the bottom, was so far distant from the nearest shore that it would have been quite impossible for any boats to have reached land. Before the captain of the _Cabigna_ had been told that he would be allowed to proceed, and in the assumption that his ship also was to be sunk, he begged that he might be allowed to take a revolver with him for the protection of his wife and child....