2 P.M
On the day of the admiral 's arrival , Knappe failed to call on him , and on the morrow called on him while he was on shore . 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 .