About nine o'clock
By-and-by we made Santa Anna . Charley Nyberg , after he had tried the dog by setting him on to two Solomon Island `` bucks '' who were loafing around his house , and seen how the beast could bite , said he would give us thirteen dollars and a fat hog for him . We agreed , and Dandy was taken on shore and chained up outside the cook-house to keep away thieving natives . About nine o'clock that evening , as the skipper and I were sitting on deck , we heard a fearful yell from Charley 's house -- a few hundred yards away from where we were anchored . The yell was followed by a wild clamour from many hundreds of native throats , and we saw several scores of people rushing towards the trader 's dwelling . Then came the sound of two shots in quick succession . `` Haul the boat alongside , '' roared our skipper , `` there 's mischief going on on shore . ''