The _Martha_ missed stays going in, and inside five minutes she was on the reef and in possession.

The niggers swarmed over her, and they just threw the crew into the boats.

I talked with some of the men.

They swear there were two hundred war canoes around her inside half an hour, and five thousand bushmen on the beach.

Said you couldn't see Malaita for the smoke of the signal fires.
Anyway, they cleared out for Tulagi." "But why didn't they fight ?" Sheldon asked.
"It was funny they didn't, but they got separated.