CAPTAIN CAMERON AND HIS DAUGHTER NITA
TEN MONTHS IN A
GERMAN RAIDER
A Prisoner of War Aboard the WOLF
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
INTRODUCTION
Captain John Stanley Cameron, master of the American bark Beluga,who tells the story of his great adventure on board the German raiderWolf, and subsequently on the prize ship Igotz Mendi, in thisvolume, 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 theoldest sailing master living in his part of the world.
Captain Cameron went to sea at the age of three. At thirteen he wasearning his living as an able-bodied seaman, and he has been a masterof sailing vessels since he was twenty-one. He figured in the newssome few years ago by taking a sailing yacht of seventy-four tonsfrom New York to San Francisco; the smallest vessel of her class tobeat through the Straits of Magellan. Since then, Captain Cameron hasretired from sea—until his last trip as master of the Beluga.
In setting down Captain Cameron's story much as it came from hisown lips, I have treated it as a simple record of human experience,avoiding any chance of spoiling this bully sea yarn by attempting togive it a literary finish.
Cyril Brown.
ILLUSTRATIONS
Captain Cameron and His Daughter Nita
The German Auxiliary Cruiser Wolf
Showing "Mannlicher" Type Torpedo Tube
Final Dive of Japanese Steamer Hitachi Maru
Showing 4.7 "Ordinary" Portside Gun
Burial of A. Johnson, Second Officeron American Bark Beluga
Last of the American Bark William Kirby
American Schooner Winslow
The Blowing up of American Schooner Winslow
Igotz Mendi Ashore on the Danish Coast
Life-boat Leaving Beach for theStranded Igotz Mendi
TEN MONTHS IN A GERMANRAIDER
PART ONE
CAPTURED BY PIRATES
Little did I dream when I sailed away from San Francisco in the littlebark Beluga that I should finish my voyage, not in Australia after atwo months' trip, bu