As a sailor who has sailed under many flags and whose friends and pals are the citizens of many countries and many climes, it is my dream that one day we shall all speak the same language and have so many common interests that terrible wars will no longer occur. But keep your bodies fit, and if your country needs you, just remember the motto of the sea:
"Don't jump overboard! Stay with the ship!"
To all my countrymen, wherever they may be, I would like to say: Look up to the bright sun and not into mouse holes where it is dark. Take my lads for your example. When their ship was wrecked on the coral reef of that atoll in the South Seas there was one thing that was not wrecked—their courage. Even when the Seeadler met her fate, from stem to stern went up the cry, taken from an old refrain, "The German oak still stands."
AUF WIEDERSEHEN!
Mopelia
Mopelia, a coral atoll of the Society Islands, where the Sea Devil planned a brief sojourn, and where the Seeadler was wrecked by a tidal wave. "A circular reef studded with waving palms and within the reef a lovely, placid lagoon. The coral shore was snow white and, with the sun's rays reflecting from it, it looked like a sparkling jewel set in an alabaster ring, like emeralds set in ivory."