CHAPTER XXIX.

Hold Conference in Putuhara--Instructions to the Saints--Go to

Otapipi--Opposition at Temaraia--Officials Bribed by Catholic

Priests--Arrival of a French Warship--The Writer is Arrested while

Expounding the Scriptures to the Natives--Cause of Arrest is False

Accusation by Catholic Priests--I Plead Not Guilty--Ordered Taken

to Tahiti--Painful Prison Experience--Cannibals in Custody--Start

for the Ship--Sympathy of the Natives--Hurried into the Ship's

Boat--In a School of Whales--A Frightened Boat Load--On Board the

Warship--Uncomfortable Quarters--Questionable French Courtesy--Among

Cockroaches, Filth, and Inconveniences--Soft Side of a Plank for a Bed.

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