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.
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.
People Gather at a Feast, and to Decide what to do with the Mormons—Threats to have Roast Missionary—Saints hold Prayer and Testimony Meeting—Kept Awake all Night—Council of Natives Decides to Roast and Eat me—Fire is Built—Men Sent to Drag me to the Council—Promises of Presidents Brigham Young and Willard Richards Come to my Mind—All Fear Is Banished—Saints and Their Enemies Ordered to Separate—All but Two Mormons Stand by me—Sublime Courage of a Native and His Wife—The Charge Against Me—I Appeal to the Bible, but our Enemies Refuse to be Guided by the Law of God—Notified of the Decision that I am to be Burned—Spirit of the Lord Rests upon me in Great Power, Inspiring me to Defy our Enemies—Spirit of Confusion Enters our Foes—They Quarrel and Fight With Each Other—Difficulty In Restraining Church Members—Deliverance which the Lord Wrought out for me—I am Allowed to proceed Unmolested—Meet a Member of the Council which Condemned me to Death—His Testimony that a Pillar of Light Descended from Heaven and Rested on me, Filling them with Fear—No more Anti-Mormon Councils—Natives show no Disposition to Receive the Gospel.
Long time without News from Home—Letter from Elder B. F. Grouard—Released from my Missionary Labors in the Islands—Little Opportunity to Leave Raivavai—Natives Build a Schooner—Fast and Pray to Learn whether I should sail on the Vessel—The Answer—Sail for Rapia—Driven Back to Raivavai—Make a New Start—Arrive at Rapia—Ridiculous Idea of the People Concerning a Mormon Elder—I am Forbidden to go Ashore, on Pain of Death—Feeling is Modified Somewhat, and I go Ashore—Battle Between the Natives—An Old Man Gives me Food—Attend a Meeting, get Permission to Speak a Few Words and am Ordered from the Island—Increase of Sentiment of Toleration—Invited to Supper at the Governor's—Strange Custom of Women Waiting on Men—Rather than Follow it, I Submit to being Called a Heathen.
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.