separated eras, fusing some and leaving others untouched.

We ran along beside them for a matter of ten miles, arriving off

a broad cleft which led into what appeared to be another lake.

As we were in search of pure water, we did not wish to overlook

any portion of the coast, and so after sounding and finding that

we had ample depth, I ran the U-33 between head-lands into as

pretty a landlocked harbor as sailormen could care to see, with

good water right up to within a few yards of the shore. As we

cruised slowly along, two of the boches again saw what they

believed to be a man, or manlike creature, watching us from a

fringe of trees a hundred yards inland, and shortly after we

discovered the mouth of a small stream emptying into the bay:

It was the first stream we had found since leaving the river, and

I at once made preparations to test its water. To land, it would

be necessary to run the U-33 close in to the shore, at least as

close as we could, for even these waters were infested, though,

not so thickly, by savage reptiles. I ordered sufficient water

let into the diving-tanks to lower us about a foot, and then I

ran the bow slowly toward the shore, confident that should we run

aground, we still had sufficient lifting force to free us when

the water should be pumped out of the tanks; but the bow nosed

its way gently into the reeds and touched the shore with the keel

still clear.

My men were all armed now with both rifles and pistols, each

having plenty of ammunition. I ordered one of the Germans ashore

with a line, and sent two of my own men to guard him, for from

what little we had seen of Caprona, or Caspak as we learned later

to call the interior, we realized that any instant some new and

terrible danger might confront us. The line was made fast to a

small tree, and at the same time I had the stern anchor dropped.

As soon as the boche and his guard were aboard again, I called

all hands on deck, including von Schoenvorts, and there I

explained to them that the time had come for us to enter into

some sort of an agreement among ourselves that would relieve

us of the annoyance and embarrassment of being divided into two

antagonistic parts--prisoners and captors. I told them that it

was obvious our very existence depended upon our unity of action,

that we were to all intent and purpose entering a new world as

far from the seat and causes of our own world-war as if millions

of miles of space and eons of time separated us from our past

lives and habitations.