Many men in white were seen to stand up, step overboard, and wade to shore.

At the same time the eye of panic descried a breastwork of "foreign stone" (brick) upon the beach.

Samoans are prepared to-day to swear to its existence, I believe conscientiously, although no such thing was ever made or ever intended in that place.

The hour is doubtful.

"It was the hour when the streak of dawn is seen, the hour known in the warfare of heathen times as the hour of the night attack," says the Mataafa official account.