In this way, their rations, and (what was more unfortunate) some of their miserable provision of forty rounds got wetted; but the men came to shore and garrisoned the plantation house without a casualty.

Meanwhile the sound of the firing from Sunga immediately renewed the hostilities at Fangalii.

The civilians on shore decided that Spengler must be at once guided to the house, and Haideln, the surveyor, accepted the dangerous errand.

Like Hufnagel, he was suffered to pass without question through the midst of these platonic enemies.

He found Spengler some way inland on a knoll, disastrously engaged, the woods around him filled with Samoans, who were continuously reinforced.