CHAPTER XXV.

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.