"Walhalla" and "Kronprinz Wilhelm" headed south from the Azores, while transferring coal from "Walhalla" to "Kronprinz Wilhelm". She then learned from German representatives at Las Palmas in the Canary Islands that no further coal would be available in the neighborhood of the Azores and the Canaries. Consequently, her commanding officer decided to head for the Brazilian coast, where he hoped to find sources of coal more friendly to Germany or at least a greater choice of neutral ports in which to intern his ship if she should find herself unable to replenish her supplies from captured ships.