Ten months in a German raider

CAPTAIN CAMERON AND HIS DAUGHTER NITA
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 age of three. At thirteen he was earning his living as an able-bodied seaman, and he has been a master of sailing vessels since he was twenty-one. He figured in the news some few years ago by taking a sailing yacht of seventy-four tons from New York to San Francisco; the smallest vessel of her class to beat through the Straits of Magellan. Since then, Captain Cameron has retired from sea—until his last trip as master of the Beluga .
In setting down Captain Cameron's story much as it came from his own lips, I have treated it as a simple record of human experience, avoiding any chance of spoiling this bully sea yarn by attempting to give it a literary finish.
Cyril Brown.
TEN MONTHS IN A GERMAN RAIDER