"On the _Kabinga_ the Captain had his wife and youngster with him. He was inclined at first to be disagreeable. 'What are you going to do with us? Shall we be set out in boats and left to our fate?' he asked. Afterward he grew confidential, like all the Captains, called us 'Old Chap,' gave the Lieutenant a nice new oilskin, and as we finally let the _Kabinga_ go wrote us a letter of thanks, and his wife asked for an Emden armband and a button. They all gave us three cheers as they steamed away. 'Come to Calcutta some time!' was the last thing the Captain said, 'and catch the pilots so that those [unprintable seaman's epithet] fellows will feel something of the war, too.' "A few days later, by Calcutta, we made one of our richest hauls, the _Diplomat_, chock full of tea--we sunk $2,500,000 worth. On the same day the _Trabbotch_, too, which steered right straight toward us, literally into our arms. [Sidenote: Madras oil tanks burned.] "But now we wanted to beat it out of the Bay of Bengal, because we had learned from the papers that the _Emden_ was being keenly searched for. By Rangoon we encountered a Norwegian tramp, which, for a cash consideration, took over all the rest of our prisoners of war. Later on another neutral ship rejected a similar request and betrayed us to the Japanese into the bargain. On September 23 we reached Madras and steered straight for the harbor. We stopped still 3,000 yards before the city. Then we shot up the oil tanks. Three or four burned up and illuminated the city. They answered. Several of the papers asserted that we left with lights out. On the contrary, we showed our lights so as to seem to indicate that we were going northward; only later did we put them out, turn around, and steer southward. As we left we could see the fire burning brightly in the night, and even by daylight, ninety sea miles away, we could still see the smoke from the burning oil tanks. Two days later we navigated around Ceylon, and could see the lights of Colombo. On the same evening we gathered in two more steamers, the _King Lund_ and _Tyweric_. The latter was particularly good to us, for it brought us the very latest evening papers from Colombo, which it had only left two hours before. [Sidenote: Ships that the _Emden_ captured.]