CHAPTER XXXIII.

Long time without News from Home--Letter from Elder B. F. Grouard--Released from my Missionary Labors in the Islands--Little Opportunity to Leave Raivavai--Natives Build a Schooner--Fast and Pray to Learn whether I should sail on the Vessel--The Answer--Sail for Rapia--Driven Back to Raivavai--Make a New Start--Arrive at Rapia--Ridiculous Idea of the People Concerning a Mormon Elder--I am Forbidden to go Ashore, on Pain of Death--Feeling is Modified Somewhat, and I go Ashore--Battle Between the Natives--An Old Man Gives me Food--Attend a Meeting, get Permission to Speak a Few Words and am Ordered from the Island--Increase of Sentiment of Toleration--Invited to Supper at the Governor's--Strange Custom of Women Waiting on Men--Rather than Follow it, I Submit to being Called a Heathen.