On December 16th the battle cruisers _Invincible_ and _Inflexible_ were recalled to England, and the _Canopus_ went north to act as guardship at the precious Pirates’ Lair which has figured so often in these pages. The _Australia_ passed on her way to the Atlantic, across which the Canadian contingents were in need of convoy, and the supervision of the _Dresden_ search devolved upon Admiral Stoddart of the _Carnarvon_. The Admiral with the _Carnarvon_ and _Cornwall_ remained in and out of the Magellan Straits, while the captain of the _Glasgow_, with him the _Kent_, _Bristol_, and _Newcastle_, was put in charge of the Chilean Archipelago. Gradually as time went on and the _Dresden_ lay low—all this while in the Gonzales Channel—other ships went away upon more urgent duties and the chase was left to the _Glasgow_, _Kent_, and an armed liner _Orama_. The _Bristol_ had butted herself ashore in one of the unsurveyed channels and was obliged to seek a dock for repairs. The great concentration of which the _Glasgow_ had been the focus was over, she was now back at her old police work, though not upon her old station. She had begun the war in sole charge of the South Atlantic; the wheel of circumstance had brought her, with her consorts, to the charge of the South Pacific. Although the _Glasgow’s_ company had had many experiences of the risks of war, they had never felt in action the strain upon their nerves which was always with them day in day out during that long weary hunt for the _Dresden_ in the Chilean Archipelago. They explored no less than 7,000 miles of narrow waters, for the most part uncharted, feeling their way by lead and by mother wit, becoming learned in the look of the towering rocks which shut them in, and in the kelp growing upon their sea margins. The channels wound among steep high cliffs, around which they could not see. As they worked stealthily round sharp corners, they were always expecting to encounter the _Dresden_ with every gun and torpedo tube registered upon the narrow space into which they must emerge. Their own guns and torpedoes were always ready for instant action, but in this game of hide-and-seek the advantage of surprise must always rest with the hidden conscious enemy. This daily strain went on through half of December and the whole of January and February! One cannot feel surprised to learn that in the view of the _Glasgow’s_ company the actions of Coronel and the Falklands were gay picnics when set in comparison with that hourly expectation throughout two and a half months of the sudden discovery of the _Dresden_, and that anticipated blast of every gun and mouldy which she could on the instant bring to bear. Added to this danger of sudden attack was the ever-present risk of maritime disaster. It is no light task to navigate for three months waters to which exist no sailing directions and no charts of even tolerable accuracy. Upon Captain Luce and upon his second in command,