The Voyage of the "Deutschland"

The Project Gutenberg eBook, The Voyage of the Deutschland , by Paul König, Translated by Vivien Ellis
THE VOYAGE OF THE DEUTSCHLAND
This translation is published under the licence of The Board of Trade.
CAPTAIN PAUL KÖNIG, Commander of the Submarine Merchantman Deutschland .
BY PAUL KÖNIG CAPTAIN OF THE SUBMARINE MERCHANTMAN DEUTSCHLAND
TRANSLATED BY VIVIEN ELLIS
London C. Arthur Pearson Ltd. Henrietta Street 1917
CONTENTS
The voyage of the submarine merchantman Deutschland has, for a long time past, been the subject of eager speculation among the nations of the Old and New worlds.
The wildest rumours regarding the fate of our cruise have appeared in the newspapers, to say nothing of the pretty imaginative stories in which the English have announced again and again that we were stranded or sunk, or, still worse, dispatched to America in bales of cargo.
How often we chuckled on board when our wireless operator picked up one of these nice English wild goose stories from the air!
It is with all the greater pleasure, therefore, that I am now about to start on this account of our fairy-like cruise and adventures. Not that it was such a fairy-like business after all. It could hardly be that, for we went as far out of the way of adventure as possible.