About four in the afternoon
Her hold was filled with all sorts of goods in barrels and cases , and when `` Puli Ese '' came , three months later , he was well pleased , not only for the seven hundred barrels of oil , but with the many things that had been gotten from the wrecked ship . We promised our new friends to come up to their village -- where they and about twenty of their fellow islanders lived with the remainder of Bully Hayes 's Line Island contingent -- on the following day , and sent them away with a few trifling presents . As they said they could walk back , and I wanted to have a look at the wreck , they cheerfully agreed to let their canoe remain with us . About four in the afternoon , as the heat of the sun began to relax , I determined to set out in the canoe . Tematau and Tepi had gone across to the weather side of the island with my gun to shoot plover and frigate birds , of which latter , so the natives had told us , there were great numbers to be found on the high trees to windward . Lucia and Niâbon were resting in the shade , but the latter , when she saw me pushing the canoe into the water , asked me to let her come also . `` Yes , of course ; and you too , Lucia .