it for thirty minutes in a temperature of 35 degrees Fahrenheit!" "The _Invincible_ alone," reported Admiral Sturdee, "rescued 108 men, fourteen of whom were found to be dead after being brought on board. These men were buried at sea the following day with full military honours." Few will say that they were undeserved. By now the battle had been distributed over many leagues of sea; the units engaged were not only out of sight of each other, but even beyond the sound of each other's guns; and it is time to return to Captain Luce in his war-scarred _Glasgow_, who, with the _Kent_ and _Cornwall_, was pursuing the three light cruisers. More perhaps than to any others of the officers and crews engaged did their part in this struggle mean to those of the _Glasgow_. The sole survivors of Coronel, they had lived, as none of their comrades had done, for a bitter five weeks, with the picture of it before them. When all would fain have stayed and fought to the last, they had been compelled, in the interests of their service, to take the harder way. {75} They had a peculiar debt to discharge, and now, if they could but seize it, their hour had come to repay it with interest. It was at about twenty minutes past one when the three German cruisers had broken away toward the southwest, the _Dresden_ leading with the _Nürnberg_ and _Leipzig_ following her on each quarter. The distance then separating them from the _Glasgow_, _Kent_, and _Cornwall_, was from nine to eleven miles; all were speedy, the _Dresden_ being the fastest; and a long, stern chase therefore ensued. Of the three British cruisers, the _Glasgow_, in spite of her late experiences, was still considerably the swiftest; and she soon drew away from them, overhauling the _Leipzig_ and _Nürnberg_, until at three o'clock she was within seven miles of the former. Her idea was now, if possible, so to outrange the _Leipzig_ as to turn and delay her until the arrival of the _Kent_ and _Cornwall_, far slower vessels even than the _Leipzig_, but carrying fourteen 6-inch guns to the _Glasgow's_ two. At three o'clock, therefore, she opened fire with her 6-inch guns, and, for more than an hour, engaged the _Leipzig_ until the arrival of the _Cornwall_. By that time she had already hit her many times over, but had had to draw away on several occasions, owing to the accuracy of the _Leipzig's_ gunners. With time and speed and the range on his side, Captain Luce, like his admiral, could afford to be deliberate; and yet even so, with a little more luck, the _Leipzig_ might have damaged the _Glasgow_ rather severely. Two of her officers stationed in the control-top had a very narrow escape from losing their lives, a shell passing between them, {76} and carrying away the hand of a signalman--three other men being wounded and one killed at about the same time. After an hour and a quarter, and having had an early tea, the _Cornwall_ arrived on the scene, and was soon, as one of the