CHAPTER XXX.

Voyage to Papeete--In a Tahitian Dungeon--Cruel Treatment--Write to

Friends--Kindness of the American Hotel Keeper--Brought Before the

Governor--False Charges Read, and Plea of Not Guilty Entered--Perjured

Testimony Against Me--Forbidden to Look at, or even Cross-Examine

Witnesses--Secrecy of the Alleged Trial--Demand My Rights as

an American Citizen--Confusion of the Governor--Returned to My

Cell--American Consul takes up my Case--Gives Bonds that I will Leave

the Protectorate--Elders and Friends Call on me--My Visitors Allowed to

Say but Little, and Sometimes Excluded--Decision of the Governor that I

must Leave the Society Islands--Fair Trial Refused me--Letter from the

American Consul--Taken to the Consul's Office--Advised to Leave--Elders

Decide that I should go Outside of the French Protectorate--Set Sail

from Papeete.

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