CHAPTER XXXV.

Watched Closely by Gen d'Armes--Experience when at Prayer--Take Dinner with the Rev. Mr. Howe--Dining with a Catholic Bishop--Impatience of the Governor--Leave Tahiti on the _Abyssinia_--Curiosity of Passengers and Sailors--Difficulty in Getting out of the Harbor--Hear of More Trouble at Anaa--Captain's comment on Mormon Books--A Waterspout--Crossing the Equator--Encounter a Terrible Storm--A Tidal Wave--Ship Springs a Leak--Panic on Board--All Hands to the Pumps--Stopping a Leak--Fair Weather Again.