CHAPTER XXXI.

Leaving Tahiti under the Order of Banishment--Supply of Provisions Exhausted--Caught in a Calm--Suffering from Lack of Food--Reach Tubuoi--Go Ashore upon Invitation of the Queen--Sail for Raivavai--Meet Elder Pratt There--Left Alone on the Island--Savage Character of the Natives--The Governor a Friend--Visit from House to House--People Generally Unwilling to Receive the Gospel--Council Decides that I must Leave the Island or be Killed--A Time of Excitement--Storm Passes for a while--Baptize Twenty Persons--Noted Chief and the Heiress to the Throne Join the Church--More Bitterness and Excitement--Two Parties of Natives Meet to Engage in Battle--Manage to Reconcile Them and Prevent Bloodshed--Further Threats Against the Mormons--Some Church Members feel to Retaliate but are Restrained--Passengers Arrive with False and Scandalous Stories About the Mormons--Persecution Increases--The Few Saints on the island Become Sorrowful and Discouraged--Protestant Ministers Advise Expulsion of the Saints--Renewal of the Faith and Zeal of the Church Members.