second-class cruiser, with a draft much heavier than that of the _Koenigsberg_, and the difference gave the latter a good advantage, for she ran up the river and her enemy could not follow. Nor could the English ship use her guns with much effect, for the gunners could not make out the hull of the German ship through the tropical vegetation along the river banks. All that the British ship could do was to fire shells in her general direction and then guess what effect they had. But to prevent her escape, colliers were sunk at the mouth of the river. She had come to as inglorious an end as her victim, the _Pegasus_. The account of another raider, the _Kronprinz Wilhelm_, which left New York on the evening that England declared war, with her bunkers loaded with coal and other supplies for warships, has already been related. The mystery concerning this sailing was cleared up when she was caught coaling the _Karlsruhe_ in the Atlantic. Both ships made off in safety that time, and soon after a British cruiser reported that she had been heard in wireless communication with the _Dresden_. Thereafter the fate of this ship remained a mystery till she put in at Hampton Roads on April 11, 1915. Most spectacular was the career of the _Emden_, a third-class cruiser, which sailed from Japanese waters at the same time as the _Koenigsberg_. Through the ability of her commander, Captain Karl von Mueller, she earned the soubriquet "Terror of the East," for by using a clever system of supply ships she was able to raid eastern waters for ten weeks without making a port or otherwise running the risk of leaving a clue by which British ships might find her. Her favorite occupation was that of stopping enemy merchantmen which she sank. But her captain always allowed one--the last one--of her prizes to remain afloat, and in this he sent to the nearest port the officers, passengers, and crews of those that were destroyed. At times he used prizes as colliers, putting them under command of his petty officers.