The slight was remarked and resented, and the two squadrons clung more obstinately to their dangerous station.
On the 15th the barometer fell to 29.11 in.

by 2 P.M.

This was the moment when every sail in port should have escaped.

Kimberley, who flew the only broad pennant, should certainly have led the way: he clung, instead, to his moorings, and the Germans doggedly followed his example: semi-belligerents, daring each other and the violence of heaven.

Kane, less immediately involved, was led in error by the report of residents and a fallacious rise in the glass; he stayed with the others, a misjudgment that was like to cost him dear.