The Wolf remained alongside us till the morning of October 3rd, when she sailed away at daybreak, leaving us anchored in the centre of the atoll.  It was a great relief to us when she departed; she kept all the breeze off our side of the ship, so that the heat in our cabin was stifling, and it was in addition very dark; the noise of coaling and shifting cargo was incessant, and the roaring of the water between the two ships most disturbing.  Before she sailed away the Prize Captain handed to my wife most of her jewels which had been recovered from the bottom of our lifeboat.  As many of these were Siamese jewellery and unobtainable now, we were very rejoiced to obtain possession of them again, but many rings were missing and were never recovered.

The falls of the lifeboats were all renewed, and on October 5th we had places assigned to us in the lifeboats, and rules and regulations were drawn up for the “detained enemy subjects” on board the Hitachi.  They were as follows:—­

     RULES AND REGULATIONS FOR ON BOARD THE GERMAN AUXILIARY SHIP
     “HITACHI MARU” DETAINED ENEMY SUBJECTS (d.e.s.).

     1.  Everybody on board is under martial law, and any offence
     is liable to be punished by same.

     2.  All orders given by the Commander, First Officer, or any
     of the German crew on duty are to be strictly obeyed.

     3.  After the order “Schiff abblenden” every evening at
     sunset no lights may be shown on deck or through portholes,
     etc., that are visible from outside.

4.  The order “Alle Mann in die Boote” will be made known by continuous ringing of the ship’s bell and sounding of gongs.  Everybody hurries to his boat with the lifebelt and leaves the ship.  Everybody is allowed to take one small bag previously packed.

5.  Nobody is allowed to go on the boat deck beyond the smoke-room.  All persons living in first-class cabins are to stay amidships, and are not allowed to go aft without special permission; all persons living aft are to stay aft.

6.  The Japanese crew is kept only for the comfort of the
one-time passengers, and is to be treated considerately, as
they are also d.e.s.

7.  The d.e.s. are not allowed to talk with the crew.

At sea, October 6, 1917. 
Kommando S.M.H. Hitachi Maru,
C. ROSE,
Lt. z.  See & Kommandant.

Lieutenant Rose very kindly told me that as I was leaving the East for good and therefore somewhat differently situated from the other passengers, he would allow me to take in the lifeboat, in addition to a handbag, a cabin trunk packed with the articles from Siam I most wanted to save.