CHAPTER XXXIV.

Determine to Preach to the People--Refused a House--Hold an Open-Air

Meeting--Strange Congregation--Six other Meetings--Visit a Native

King--He Commands me to Leave--I do so In Order to Avoid Being Put

to Death--Watermelons and Other Vegetables--Native Tradition of the

Peopling of the Islands--Visit of a Protestant Minister--Sail for

Tahiti--In a Heavy Storm--Prayers by Frightened Natives--I am Asked to

Pray with them, but Decline to Follow their Methods--Reach the Harbor

of Papeete--American Consul Obtains Permission for me to Land--Go

to Work with a Carpenter--Warned not to be Alone lest I should be

Killed--Watched by Gen d'Armes--Trouble at Anaa, and Arrest of Native

Mormons--These are Brought to Papeete--How they got Letters to me, and

their Replies--My Former Persecutors of Raivavai Come to Me for Advice,

and I Return Good for Evil.

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