CHAPTER XXXIV.

Determine to Preach to the People--Refused a House--Hold an Open-Air Meeting--Strange Congregation--Six other Meetings--Visit a Native King--He Commands me to Leave--I do so In Order to Avoid Being Put to Death--Watermelons and Other Vegetables--Native Tradition of the Peopling of the Islands--Visit of a Protestant Minister--Sail for Tahiti--In a Heavy Storm--Prayers by Frightened Natives--I am Asked to Pray with them, but Decline to Follow their Methods--Reach the Harbor of Papeete--American Consul Obtains Permission for me to Land--Go to Work with a Carpenter--Warned not to be Alone lest I should be Killed--Watched by Gen d'Armes--Trouble at Anaa, and Arrest of Native Mormons--These are Brought to Papeete--How they got Letters to me, and their Replies--My Former Persecutors of Raivavai Come to Me for Advice, and I Return Good for Evil.