Five Months on a German Raider

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Excerpt from Five Months on a German Raider: Being the Adventures of an Englishman Captured by the "Wolf"It is generally understood that instructions to Captains in these times are to suspect every vessel seen at sea, and to run away from all signs of smoke (and some of us knew that on a previous occasion, some months before, a vessel of the same line had seen smoke in this neighbourhood, and had at once turned tail and made tracks for Colombo, resuming her voyage when the smoke dis appeared). The officer on the bridge with his glass must have seen the smoke long before I did, so my suspicions of a raider were gradu ally disarmed as we did not alter our course a single point, but proceeded to meet the stranger, whose course towards us formed a diagonal one with ours If nothing had happened she would have crossed our track Slightly astern of us.But something did happen. More passengers were now awake, discussing the nationality of the ship bearing down on us. Still no alter ation was made in our course, and we and she had made no Sign Of recognition.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.