"Get the harpoons ready!"
The prosaic American clipper, Pass of Balmaha, bound for
Russia with a cargo of cotton, by the alchemy of war became
the mysterious Seeadler preying on Allied shipping until a
coral reef of the South Pacific ended its seven months' cruise
of destruction.
The Seeadler, that carried the modern buccaneer whose
dare-devil adventures were to out-rival the high-handed days
of the Spanish Main. From a sketch made from the photograph
taken by the captain of the Antonin. [See page 167].
Engineer Krauss and the mechanical crew picked for the pirate cruise.