disregard it when it knocked against her convenience, and shelter herself under it when in need of a protective mantle. She had by her own violations become an outlaw. At 2.30 a.m. on the 13th, Sturdee learned that the _Dresden_ was at Punta Arenas. The _Bristol_, which was ready, jumped off the mark at once; the _Inflexible_ and the _Glasgow_, which were not quite ready, got off at 9.15. Thus it happened that the _Bristol_ reached Punta Arenas seventeen hours after the _Dresden_ had left, to vanish, as it were, into space, and not to be heard of again for a couple of months. What she did was to slip down again into the Cockburn Channel and lie at anchor in Hewett Bay near the southern exit. On December 26th she shifted her quarters to an uncharted and totally uninhabited creek, called the Gonzales Channel, and there she lay in idle security until February 4th. During the long weeks of the _Dresden’s_ stay in Hewett Bay and the Gonzales Channel, the English cruisers were busily hunting for her among the islets and inlets of the Magellan Straits, Tierra del Fuego, and the west coast of the South American spur. The _Carnarvon_, _Cornwall_, and _Kent_ took charge of the Magellan Straits, the _Glasgow_ and _Bristol_ ferreted about the recesses of the west coast with the _Inflexible_ outside of them to chase the sea-rat should she break cover for the open. The battle cruiser _Australia_ came in from the Pacific and with the “County” cruiser _Newcastle_, from Mexico, kept watch off Valparaiso. The _Dresden_, lying snug in the Gonzales Channel, was not approached except once, on December 29th, when one of the searchers was within twenty miles of her hiding-place. The weather was thick and she was not seen. The big ships did not long waste their time over the search. It was one better suited to light craft, for lighter craft even than the _Glasgow_ or _Bristol_, for which the uncharted channels often threatened grave dangers. Armed patrols or picket boats, of shallow draught, were best suited to the work, and in its later stages were furbished up and made available.