r one-pounder guns as her armament. Soon afterward she stopped
the British ship _Schargost_ and expected to refill her coal bunkers
from those of the merchantman, but in this she was disappointed,
for those of the latter were almost empty. Her next victim was
a French sailing vessel, _Jean_, and on board this was found a
pleasant surprise for the German raider, for the vessel was laden
with coal. Captain Thierichens had her towed 1,500 miles, to Easter
Island, where the coal was transferred to the bunkers of the _Eitel
Friedrich_, and the crews of her first three victims were put ashore.
These marooned men were burdens to the white inhabitants of the
island, for there was not too much food for the extra forty-eight
mouths. Finally, on February 26, 1915, the Swedish ship _Nordic_
saw them signaling from the island and took them off, landing them
at Panama on the day after the _Prinz Eitel Friedrich_ entered
Newport News.

By the beginning of December, 1914, the German raider was in the
South Atlantic, and while there heard wireless messages exchanged
between the ships of the British fleet that took part in the battle
off the Falkland Islands. The bark _Isabella Browne_, flying the
Russian flag, was the next ship overtaken by the _Eitel Friedrich_,
on January 26, 1915. She was boarded and all of her provisions
and stores were removed to the German ship; after her crew and
their personal effects were taken aboard the German ship she was
dynamited and sank. On that same morning the French ship _Pierre
Loti_ was sighted, and while the _Prinz Eitel Friedrich_ put an
end to her, after first taking off her crew, the captive crew of
the _Isabella Browne_ was sent below, but was allowed to come on
deck to watch the sinking of the French ship. The American ship
_William P. Frye_ was sunk soon afterward, and her crew, also,
was made part of the party on board the raider. After sinking the
French bark _Jacobsen_ the _Prinz Eitel Friedrich_ stopped the
_Thalasia_ on February 8, 1915, and let her go on her way, but
on February 18 the British ships _Cindracoe_ and _Mary Ada Scott_
were sunk. On the 19th the French steamer _Floride_ was overtaken
off the coast of Brazil; all persons aboard her were transferred to
the German ship and most of her provisions were also taken aboard
the latter; the _Floride_, the largest steamer destroyed by the
German ship, was set afire and left to burn. On February 20, 1915,
the British ship _Willerby_