afraid that the story of the cheers from the _Monmouth_ which sped the _Glasgow_ upon her way must be dismissed as a pretty legend. No one in the _Glasgow_ heard them, and no one from the _Monmouth_ survived to tell the tale. Captain Grant and his men of the _Canopus_ must have suffered agonies when they received the _Glasgow’s_ brief message. They had done their utmost to keep up with the _Good Hope_, and the slowness of their ship had been no fault of theirs. Grant had, I have been told, implored the Admiral to wait for him before risking an engagement. The journey to the Straits and to her junction with the _Canopus_ was a very anxious one for the _Glasgow’s_ company. They did their best to be cheerful, though cheerfulness was not easy to come by. They had witnessed the total defeat of an English by a German squadron, and before they could get down south into comparative safety the German ships, running down the chord of the arc which represented the _Glasgow’s_ course, might arrive first at the Straits. That there was no pursuit to the south may be explained by the one word—coal. Von Spee could get coal at Valparaiso or at Coronel—though the local coal was soft, wretched stuff—but he had no means of replenishment farther south. One does not realize how completely a squadron of warships is tied to its colliers or to its coaling bases until one tries to discover and explain the movements of warships cruising in the outer seas. While running down towards the Straits—for twenty-four hours she kept up twenty-four knots—the _Glasgow_ briefly notified the _Canopus_ of the disaster of Coronel and of her own intention to make for the Falkland Islands. Beyond this, she refrained from using the tell-tale wireless which might give away her position to a pursuing enemy. Upon the evening of the 3rd she picked up the German press story of the action, but kept silence upon it herself. On the morning of the 4th, very short of stores—her crew had been on reduced rations for a month—she reached the Straits and, to her great relief, found them empty of the enemy. She did not meet the _Canopus_ until the 6th, and then, with the big battleship upon her weather quarter, to keep the seas somewhat off that sore hole in her side, she made a fortunately easy passage to the Falkland Islands and entered Port Stanley at daylight upon November 8th. Thence the _Glasgow_ despatched her first telegram to the authorities at home, and at six o’clock in the evening set off with the _Canopus_ for the north. But that same evening came orders from England for the _Canopus_ to return, in order that the coaling base of the Falklands might be defended, so the _Glasgow_, alone once more after many days, pursued her solitary way towards Rio and to her meeting with the _Carnarvon_, _Defence_, and _Cornwall_, which were at that time lying off the River Plate guarding the approaches to Montevideo and Buenos Ayres. The _Glasgow_ had done her utmost to uphold the Flag, but