BY CAPTAIN JOHN STANLEY CAMERON Master of the American Bark Beluga ILLUSTRATED NEW YORK GEORGE H. DORAN COMPANY Copyright, 1918, By George H. Doran Company Printed in the United States of America...

Captain John Stanley Cameron, master of the American bark Beluga , who tells the story of his great adventure on board the German raider Wolf , and subsequently on the prize ship Igotz Mendi , in this volume, is of Scotch parentage, thirty-four years old; a smooth-shaven, canny graduate of the "before the mast" school, and prematurely gray. His father is a well-known figure on the Pacific Coast, being the oldest sailing master living in his part of the world. Captain Cameron went to sea at the a

CAPTURED BY PIRATES Little did I dream when I sailed away from San Francisco in the little bark Beluga that I should finish my voyage, not in Australia after a two months' trip, but in Denmark, on the other side of the world, after a ten months' experience that has never before been equalled in the annals of sea-going history. My story could well be called "An Escape from the Jaws of Hell"—for a prisoner's life in Germany under the present conditions is surely a hell on earth. During my six week

A PRISONER ON A PASSENGER STEAMER From New Guinea the Wolf steamed southwest through the Malay archipelago, then between Borneo and Java and Sumatra, thence through the Java sea; and on the night of September 6th the Wolf laid over one hundred mines across the Northwest approach to the entrance of the Singapore harbour. Going up the Java sea, we were continually sighting vessels, and it was only the barefaced gall of the Wolf that saved her from destruction. Less than a month previous to this th

BOUND FOR GERMANY—THE RESCUE On November 7th, the transfer of cargo being complete, and everything movable or floatable on the Hitachi being secured so that it would not float off when she sunk and leave any trace to make a passing steamer suspicious, we steamed out well clear of the Chagos Islands and at 1:30 P.M. the Hitachi Maru was bombed. She sank in 29 minutes. We on the Wolf were quite close to the Hitachi Maru and could see everything very clearly. First the "bombing squad" were very bus

During her fifteen months' cruise the Wolf laid approximately five hundred mines and captured fourteen vessels, as follows: 1. British tank s/s. " TURITELLA ," 7300 gross tons, Captain S.G. Meadows , captured on February 27, 1917, in the Indian Ocean, bound from Rangoon to Europe with a cargo of oil. The captain and officers were taken off this vessel and transferred to the Wolf . A crew of German officers and mine-men were put on board of her, under charge of Lieutenant-Commander Brandes , ex-c