Several Baptisms—Visit Papara Again—Coldness of the People—Bitter Efforts of the Protestant Ministers—Natives Visit Me In Secret—Anti-Mormon Mass Meeting—Foolish and Vicious scheme to Ensnare the Writer—It is Easily Defeated—Return to Papeete—More Baptisms—Departure of Elder Dunn—I am left Alone—Brethren come from Tubuoi—Elders Appointed to Labor in Different Islands—The writer Assigned to the Tuamotu Group—Leave on the Elders' Schooner the Ravai or Fisher—Meet with Contrary Winds—Driven to Various Islands—Encounter a Violent storm—In Great Peril—Vessel Beyond Control—Storm calms Down—Reach Tubuoi—First Preaching of the Gospel there, in 1844.
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.
Invited to Organize Schools—Catholic Priests Displeased at Mormon Success—Good Attendance at the Schools—Threats by the Priests—Discomfiture of the Latter—Feast and Address of Welcome by the Natives to the Writer—Preaching and Baptisms—Catholic Priests seize a Schoolhouse Belonging to the Saints—Disturb a Saints' Meeting—More Baptisms—Further Annoyance by Catholics—People Decide Against Them—Town Officials Appealed to—They Uphold the Decision in Favor of the Mormons—Priests Write to Governor Bonard, Making False Charges Against me—A Peculiar Dream.
Go to Temaraia—Miraculous Healings—Child Assailed by an Evil Spirit—Strange Occurrence—Gift of Sea Biscuits—Perform a Surgical Operation—Hammering out Teeth—The Writer as a Surgeon and Dentist—Roughs Disturbs Meeting—They are Stricken with Death—Fatal Sickness among the People—Lower Classes of Natives at a Feast—Their Reverence for Religious Services and Preachers—Two Parties of Natives in Battle Array—Fighting Averted by the Writer Addressing the Contending Factions in Favor of Peace—Wars among the Natives—Some of their Practices—Gathering and Keeping Human Heads—Causes of Cannibalism—Conversation with one who had been a Cannibal—Flavor of Native and White Men's Flesh Compared—The Tastiest Part of the Human Body.
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.