By the 20th, they were being watered from the _Adler_.

On the 24th the Manono fleet of sixteen large boats, fortified and rendered unmanageable with tons of firewood, passed to windward to intercept supplies from Atua.

By the 27th the hungry garrison flocked in great numbers to draw rations at the German firm.

On the 28th the same business was repeated with a different issue.

Mataafas crowded to look on; words were exchanged, blows followed; sticks, stones, and bottles were caught up; the detested Brandeis, at great risk, threw himself between the lines and expostulated with the Mataafas--his only personal appearance in the wars, if this could be called war.