A Captive on a German Raider (Classic Reprint)

Download or read book A Captive on a German Raider (Classic Reprint) written by F. G. Trayes and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from A Captive on a German Raider The chart at noon on the twenty-sixth marked five hundred and eight miles from Colombo, two thousand, nine hundred and twelve to Delagoa Bay, and one hundred and ninety to the Equator; only position, not the course, being marked after the ship left Co lombo. Most of the passengers had, as usual, either dozed on the deck or in their cabins after tiflin, my wife and I being in deck chairs on the port side. When I woke up at one forty-five I saw far off on the horizon on the port bow, smoke from a steamer. I was the only person awake on the deck at the time, and I believe no other passenger had seen the smoke. It was so far away that it was impossible to tell whether we were meeting or overtak ing the ship. Immediately thoughts of a raider sprang to my mind, though I did not know one was out. It is generally under stood that instructions to Captains in these times are to suspect every vessel seen at sea. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.