two o'clock
The former had spoken throughout in pure Chinese , the latter replying in rich Welsh , and the general effect , wired the correspondent , was almost painfully exhilarating . So sudden had been the attacks that in very few instances was there any real resistance . The nearest approach to it appears to have been seen at Margate . At the time of the arrival of the black warriors which , like the other onslaughts , took place between one and two o'clock on the afternoon of August Bank Holiday , the sands were covered with happy revellers . When the war canoes approached the beach , the excursionists seem to have mistaken their occupants at first for a troupe of nigger minstrels on an unusually magnificent scale ; and it was freely noised abroad in the crowd that they were being presented by Charles Frohmann , who was endeavouring to revive the ancient glories of the Christy Minstrels . Too soon , however , it was perceived that these were no harmless Moore and Burgesses . Suspicion was aroused by the absence of banjoes and tambourines ; and when the foremost of the negroes dexterously scalped a small boy , suspicion became certainty .