ended the German vessel by keeping a fire upon her while remaining
too distant to be within range of the _Nuernberg's_ 4-inch guns, but dusk
was gathering and an evening mist was settling down upon the water.
Consequently the _Kent_ drew nearer to her adversary. The firing of the
_Nuernberg_ was then effective and more than twenty of her shells took
good effect on the British ship. It was only through prompt action on
the part of her crew that her magazine was kept from exploding, for a
shell set fire to the passage leading to it.

By seven o'clock in the evening the _Nuernberg_ was practically "blind,"
for the flames from the fire that was raging on her had reached her
conning tower. A member of her crew hauled down her flag, and the
_Kent_, thinking that the fight was over, came close to her. While
within a few hundred yards of her, however, she was greeted with new
firing from the German cruiser. But this ceased under a raking from the
_Kent's_ starboard guns, and once again the flag of the _Nuernberg_,
which had been run up on resumption of shooting, was hauled down.
Members of her crew then had to jump into the sea to escape death from
burning--the fire was quenched only when she went down at half past
seven. The overworked engineers and stokers of the _Kent_ were rewarded
for their hard work by being permitted to come on deck to watch the
_Nuernberg_ go down, and all were soon engaged in helping to save the
lives of the German sailors in the water. Just as the red glow of the
sinking _Nuernberg_ was dying down a large four-masted sailing ship, with
all sails set, came out of the mist, her canvas tinged red by the
flames' rays. Silently she went by, disappearing again into the mist, a
weird addition to an uncanny scene.

Chasing the various units of the broken line of German ships had taken
the British ships miles from each other, but after ten o'clock they
began to reach each other by wireless signals and all made again for
Stanley. It was not until the afternoon of the next day, however, that
word came from the _Kent_, for her pursuit had taken her farther than
any of the other British ships.

The _Bristol_ and _Macedonia_ had made good in their pursuit of the
_Santa Isabel_ and _Baden_, but in going after the _Dresden_ the
_Bristol_ was not successful; the German ship got away in the rainstorm
which came up during the evening, and the _Bristol_, which had hurried
out of the harbor at Stanley not quite ready fo