extraordinary nature of their
voyage.

An amusing incident during the trip was the attempt to camouflage his
ship by a frame work, made of canvas and so constructed as to give the
outline of a steamer. One day a hostile steamer appeared in the distance
and Captain Koenig proceeded to test his disguise.

After great difficulties, especially in connection with the production
of smoke, he finally had the whole construction fairly at work. The
steamer, which had been peacefully going its way, on seeing the new ship
suddenly changed her course and steered directly toward the Deutschland.
It evidently took the Deutschland for some kind of a wreck and was
hurrying to give it assistance. Captain Koenig at once pulled off his
super-structure and revealed himself as a submarine, and the strange
vessel veered about and hurried off as fast as it could.

On the arrival of the Deutschland in America Captain Koenig and his crew
found their difficulties over. All arrangements had been made by
representatives of the North German Lloyd for their safety and comfort.
As they ran up Chesapeake Bay they were greeted by the whistles of the
neutral steamers that they passed. The moving-picture companies
immortalized the crew and they were treated with the utmost hospitality.

The Allied governments protested that the Deutschland was really a war
vessel and on the 12th of July a commission of three American naval
officers was sent down from Washington to make an investigation. The
investigation showed the Deutschland was absolutely unarmed and the
American Government decided not to interfere.

The position of the Allies was that a submarine, even though without
guns or torpedoes, was practically a vessel of war from its very nature,
and for it to pretend to be a merchant vessel was as if some great
German man-of-war should dismount its guns and pass them over to some
tender and then undertake to visit an American port. They argued that if
the submarine would come out from harbor it might be easily fitted with
detachable torpedo tubes, and become as dangerous as any U-boat. Even
without arms it might easily sink an unarmed merchant vessel by ramming.
But the United States was not convinced, and American citizens rather
admired the genial captain.

His return was almost as uneventful as his voyage out. At the very
beginning he had trouble in not being able to rise after an experimental
dive. This misadventure was caused by a plug of mud wh