CHAPTER XXVI.

Hearty Welcome in Tubuoi--Start for Tuamotu--Reach Papeete,

Tahiti--Visit to Huaua--Leave Tahiti--Writer gets Relief from

Seasickness--Broiled Fish and Cocoanuts--in a School of Whales--Thrown

onto a Coral Reef--Total Wreck Imminent--Three Persons yet Ashore--Boat

goes out to Sea--Wreck of Elder Dunn's Party--Three Days In the Sea,

Clinging to a Capsized Boat--Clothing Torn off by Sharks--Skin Taken

off by the Sea and Sun--Reach the Island of Anaa--Recognized by a

Man who had seen me in a Dream--Preaching and Baptizing--Many of

the Natives Church Members--Make a Rude Map of the California Gold

Fields--Tell of Having been in the Mormon Battalion--Catholic Priests

Elicit this Information as Part of a Scheme to have me Expelled from

the Island.

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