eleven o'clock
Then , you good fella along me , I give you three fathom calico , one fella knife big fella too much . '' The tobacco and trade goods were brought from the storeroom by two house - boys and turned over to the chief of Balesuna village , who accepted the additional reward with a non-committal grunt and went away down the path to his canoes . Under Sheldon 's directions the house-boys handcuffed the prisoner , by hands and feet , around one of the pile supports of the house . At eleven o'clock , when the labourers came in from the field , Sheldon had them assembled in the compound before the veranda . Every able man was there , including those who were helping about the hospital . Even the women and the several pickaninnies of the plantation were lined up with the rest , two deep -- a horde of naked savages a trifle under two hundred strong . In addition to their ornaments of bead and shell and bone , their pierced ears and nostrils were burdened with safety-pins , wire nails , metal hair-pins , rusty iron handles of cooking utensils , and the patent keys for opening corned beef tins .