CHAPTER XXIV.

Scarcity of Food--Traveling In Heavy Rains--Call on a Protestant Minister--Arrival of Another Missionary and Letters from Home--Visitors from Metia--Hold a Sacrament Meeting--Go to Papara--Abused by the Protestant Minister--Preach to the People--Young Woman Miraculously Healed at Baptism--Great Excitement--Rage of the Protestant Ministers--Persecution Instituted--Arrested for Preaching--Released on Promising to Return to Huaua--Plenty of Friends--Unintentional Escape from Gen d'Armes--Arrival at Papeete--Charge on which Officers seek to Arrest me--Abused by Rev. Mr. Howe--A Quiet Answer Calls Out Cheers from the Crowd--Tide Turns in my Favor--Excitement Calms Down, and Efforts to Arrest Me Cease.