CHAPTER XXXI.

Leaving Tahiti under the Order of Banishment--Supply of Provisions

Exhausted--Caught in a Calm--Suffering from Lack of Food--Reach

Tubuoi--Go Ashore upon Invitation of the Queen--Sail for Raivavai--Meet

Elder Pratt There--Left Alone on the Island--Savage Character of the

Natives--The Governor a Friend--Visit from House to House--People

Generally Unwilling to Receive the Gospel--Council Decides that I must

Leave the Island or be Killed--A Time of Excitement--Storm Passes for

a while--Baptize Twenty Persons--Noted Chief and the Heiress to the

Throne Join the Church--More Bitterness and Excitement--Two Parties of

Natives Meet to Engage in Battle--Manage to Reconcile Them and Prevent

Bloodshed--Further Threats Against the Mormons--Some Church Members

feel to Retaliate but are Restrained--Passengers Arrive with False

and Scandalous Stories About the Mormons--Persecution Increases--The

Few Saints on the island Become Sorrowful and Discouraged--Protestant

Ministers Advise Expulsion of the Saints--Renewal of the Faith and Zeal

of the Church Members.

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