CHAPTER XXX.

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.