Life of a Pioneer: Being the Autobiography of James S. Brown

CHAPTER XXI.

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Offer of Transportation to the Island of Tubuol--Apply to the Governor for Permission to go--Troops on Parade--Suite of Queen Pomere--Call on the Governor--Conversation in Three Languages--Directed to Come Again Next Day--Put off by the Governor--Latter Refuses the Permission Asked--His Prejudice Against the Mormons--Demands a Statement of Their Doctrines--Not Required of Other Denominations--Writer's Interview with the Governor--Return to Huaua--Other Elders Requested to Assemble then--Bitterness of Protestant Ministers--Natives comment on Mormons Learning Their Language Quickly.