two in the morning
To sneak ashore by night was to increase the danger of resistance and to minimise the authority of the attack . The thing was a bluff , and it is impossible to bluff with stealth . Yet this was what was tried . A landing-party was to leave the _ Olga _ in Apia bay at two in the morning ; the landing was to be at four on two parts of the foreshore of Vailele . At eight they were to be joined by a second landing-party from the _ Eber _ . By nine the Olgas were to be on the crest of Letongo Mountain , and the Ebers to be moving round the promontory by the seaward paths , `` with measures of precaution , '' disarming all whom they encountered . There was to be no firing unless fired upon .