But the warship which he had sighted proved to be a Brazilian, and the thirst of the _Glasgow’s_ company for battle went for a while unslaked. The _Dresden_, for which the _Glasgow_ was searching, had coaled at the Rocas Islands, there met the _Baden_, a collier of twelve knots, carrying 5,000 tons of coal, and together the two vessels made for the south and remained together until after the Falkland Islands action had been fought. The _Dresden_ picked up a second collier, the _Preussen_, and set her course for the small barren Trinidad Island, another old Pirates’ Lair some 500 miles from that of the _Glasgow_, at which she in her turn established a temporary base. At one moment the _Dresden_ and _Glasgow_ were not far apart, the wireless calls sounded near, yet they did not meet. This was on the 18th, when the _Glasgow_ was coaling at her base, and two days before she went north to join up with the _Monmouth_ off Pernambuco. This journey to the north coincided in time with the _Dresden’s_ passage to Trinidad Island, so that by the 20th the two cruisers were again a thousand miles apart, but with their positions reversed. While the _Glasgow_ had been going up, the _Dresden_ had been going south and east. For awhile we will leave the _Dresden_, which after spending two days under the lee of Trinidad Island went on her way to the south, drawing farther and farther away from the _Glasgow_ and more and more out of our picture. Her movements were from time to time revealed by captures of British ships, of which the crews were sent ashore. Her captain, Lüdecke, at no time made a systematic business of preying upon merchant traffic and upon him rests no charge of inhumanity. It may be that commerce raiding and murder did not please him; it may be that he was under orders to make his way at the leisurely gait of his collier _Baden_—he left the _Preussen_ behind at Trinidad Island—towards the Chilean coast, and the ultimate meeting with von Spee. At sea off Pernambuco on August 20th, the _Glasgow_ met the _Monmouth_, which had been commissioned on August 4th, mainly with naval reservists, and hastily despatched to the South Atlantic. Rumour still pointed to the presence of the _Dresden_ in the vicinity, and it seemed likely that she might meditate an attack upon our merchant shipping in the waters afterwards greatly favoured by the _Karlsruhe_. The two English cruisers remained in the north for a week, hearing much German wireless, which was that of the _Karlsruhe_, and not of the _Dresden_. On the night of the 27th the armed liner _Otranto_ heralded her approach, and on the following day the _Glasgow_ met her at the Rocas Islands. Captain Luce had now progressed from the command of one cruiser to the control of quite a squadron, three ships. Already the concentration about the small form of the _Glasgow_ had begun.