midnight
Including the two mates , five men were slain and four others were wounded . The wounded men and the rest of the crew barricaded themselves in the forecastle for protection , and there they remained the rest of the night and all through the next day . The captain and his wife and child stayed in the cabin . `` The two coolies were in full possession of the ship from a little past midnight until eight o'clock of the following evening . One of them , venturing near the skylight , was shot in the breast by the captain , and then the two coolies rushed forward and threw a spar overboard . One of them jumped into the sea and clung to the spar , while the other dropped down into the between-decks , where he proceeded to set the ship on fire . Seeing this , the sailors who had barricaded themselves in the forecastle broke out , and two of them proceeded to hunt the coolie down with revolvers .