CHAPTER XXIX.

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.