growing more desperate for food, captain porter left the sick and dying behind, under the command of marine lieutenant a.s. williams, and set out with 7 marines and 6 porters to lanang. having arrived at lanang on 11 january, cpt. porter then sent out a relief column to pick up his own stragglers and rescue lt. william's command. by 18 january, when williams was rescued, 10 marines had died, one had gone insane and the porters had mutinied. williams later testified that their mutinous behavior left the marines in daily fear of their lives; the porters were hiding food and supplies from the marines and keeping themselves nourished from the jungle while the marines starved; then three porters attacked and wounded williams with a bolo knife. the other 11 porters were placed under arrest when williams' command reached lanang.