In three successive charges, cheering as they ran, the blue- jackets burst through their scattered opponents, and made good their junction with Jaeckel.

Four men only remained upon the field, the other wounded being helped by their comrades or dragging themselves painfully along.
The force was now concentrated in the house and its immediate patch of garden.

Their rear, to the seaward, was unmolested; but on three sides they were beleaguered.

On the left, the Samoans occupied and fired from some of the plantation offices.

In front, a long rising crest of land in the horse-pasture commanded the house, and was lined with the assailants.
And on the right, the hedge of the same paddock afforded them a dangerous cover.