successful in destroying her also. One of the ten boilers of the _Nürnberg_ had been out of action for weeks past and her speed was a good deal below its best. The sea is a very big place, but that portion of it contained within the ring of the visible horizon is very small. To those in the _Glasgow_, pressing on in chase of the _Leipzig_, the scene appeared strange and even ominous. They could see the _Scharnhorst_ and _Gneisenau_ far away, moving apparently in pursuit of themselves, but the battle cruisers hidden below the curve of the horizon they could not see. When firing from the _Invincible_ and _Inflexible_ ceased for a while—as it did at intervals—it seemed to the _Glasgow’s_ company that they were sandwiched between von Spee’s armoured cruisers and his light cruisers, and that the battle cruisers, upon which the result of the action depended, had disappeared into space. The telegraph room and the conning-tower doubtless knew what was happening, but the ship’s company as a whole did not. To this brevity of vision, and to this detachment from exact information, one must set down the extraordinarily conflicting stories one receives from the observers of a naval action. They see what is within the horizon but not what is below it, and that which is below is not uncommonly far more important than that which is above. Shortly after three o’clock the _Glasgow_ opened upon the _Leipzig_ with her foremost 6-inch gun at a range of about 12,000 yards (about seven miles), seeking to outrange the lighter 4.1-inch guns carried by the German cruiser. The distance closed down gradually to 10,000 yards, at which range the German guns could occasionally get in their work. They could, as the _Emden_ showed in her fight with the _Sydney_, and as was observed at Coronel, do effective shooting even at 11,000 yards, but hits were difficult to bring off, owing to the steepness of the fall of the shells and the narrowness of the mark aimed at. For more than an hour the _Glasgow_ engaged the _Leipzig_ by herself, knocking out her secondary control position between the funnels, and allowing the _Cornwall_ time to arrive and to help to finish the business with her fourteen 6-inch guns. At one time the range fell as low as 9,000 yards, the _Leipzig’s_ gunners became very accurate, and the _Glasgow_ suffered nearly all the casualties which overtook her in the action.