They lost it again, yard by yard and from house to house, till the pilot station was once more in the hands of the Mataafas.

This is the last definite incident in the battle.

The vicissitudes along the line of the entrenchments remain concealed from us under the cover of the forest.

Some part of the Tamasese position there appears to have been carried, but what part, or at what hour, or whether the advantage was maintained, I have never learned.

Night and rain, but not silence, closed upon the field.