Americans supplied Mataafa with ammunition; English and Americans openly subscribed together and sent boat-loads of provisions to his camp.

One such boat started from Apia on a day of rain; it was pulled by six oars, three being paid by Moors, three by the MacArthurs; Moors himself and a clerk of the MacArthurs' were in charge; and the load included not only beef and biscuit, but three or four thousand rounds of ammunition.

They came ashore in Laulii, and carried the gift to Mataafa.

While they were yet in his house a bullet passed overhead; and out of his door they could see the Tamasese pickets on the opposite hill.

Thence they made their way to the left flank of the Mataafa position next the sea.