Chapter LXV

Miraculous Healing--Meet and Confound the Josephites--Further Missionary Success--Meet a Native who was Present when I was Sentenced to be Burned--Elder John Layton's Grave--Arrange to Return to Tahiti--Disappointed--Preach a Funeral Sermon--Forbidden to Hold Public Meetings--Blind Woman one Hundred and Twenty Years Old Her Testimony--Administer to her for her Eyesight, and she Is Enabled to see a Little--She Praises the Lord--Preaching and Baptizing--Sail for Papeete--An odd Cargo--Hard Voyage--Held by a Calm--Land on Tahiti--Sail for Avaroa--On a Well-ordered Schooner--Call at Various Islands--Lance a Carbuncle--Christmas Day at Sea--Watermelons--A Beautiful Residence and Cordial Welcome--Perform Three Marriage Ceremonies--Conference of Saints in the Tuamotu Islands--Meet a Native Chilean--Visit Various Places--Public Welcome--Fishing--On the Island of Anaa--Visit Where I was Imprisoned--Graves of those Concerned In the Trouble Then--Warrant Served on me--Summoned to the Government House--Warned Against Creating a Disturbance.

CHAPTER LXVI.

Preaching and Visiting--Pearl Fishing--Place of my Arrest in 1851--Accident to a Young Man--Incident with the Governor of Anaa--See a Leper--Capture of an Eel--Conference on Anaa--Time of Dedication of Salt Lake Temple--Specially Interesting Meetings--New Elders from Utah--Start back to Tahiti--Another Funeral Sermon--Meet the French Governor of the Tuamotu Islands--His Cordial Greeting--Arrive at Papeete--Appointments for the New Missionaries--Fall to get a Passage to Tubuoi--My Health Very Poor--Learn of the Dedication of the Salt Lake Temple--Elders Unanimous in the Decision that I should Return Home Because of my Illness--I Demur--Conclude to go--Trouble on Anaa--My Sixty-fifth birthday--Notable Kindness of a Native child--Sail from Papeete--Difficulty In Landing from Small Boats--In the Society Islands--Reach San Francisco--Arrive in Salt Lake City--Report the Successful Opening of the Society Islands Mission.

CHAPTER LXVII.

Invited To the Midwinter Fair, San Francisco, and Accept--Journey to California--Kind Treatment Received--An Honored Guest--Write a Pamphlet on the Discovery of Gold at Sutter's Mill Race--First Accurate Account Published--Again at Home--Preparing my Autobiography for Publication--A Great Task--Progress of the Work--My History of the First Mission to the Pacific Islands--Utah's Semi-Centennial Jubilee--Not a Utah Pioneer of 1847--Pioneer Just the Same--Mormon Battalion Recognized in the Utah Celebration--Invited to join In the Parade--Comparative Narrowness of Committee's Courtesy--Letters from California Regarding the Pioneer Celebration there in 1898--Invited with three Others of the Mormon Battalion, to be Special Guests as the Survivors of the Party that Discovered Gold In California in 1848--Appreciation of the Courtesy Extended by Californians.

CHAPTER LXVIII.

Trip to California--Met by the Committee on Reception of the Society of California Pioneers--Received with Great Cordiality--Honored Guests at California's Golden Jubilee--The Celebration--Courtesies Extended to Mormon Battalion Members Present at the Discovery of Gold--Return Home--Resolutions by Society of California Pioneers--Report of Reception committee of California Golden Jubilee--Sketch of Marshall's Surviving Companions--Complete my Autobiography--My Son Homer Accidentally Killed--The Old Folks--Publication of Life of a Pioneer--Conclusion.

ILLUSTRATIONS.

Portrait of James S. Brown

Fire Prepared to Roast the Missionary--Sentenced to Death

A Typical Tahitian with his Burden of Bread Fruit and Feii

A War Party of Shoshones Dancing around their Prisoners while in the Chief's Lodge

Surrounded by a Pack of Hungry Wolves

Chased By a War Party

Marquesas Fire Dancers

LIFE OF A PIONEER BEING THE AUTOBIOGRAPHY OF

JAMES S. BROWN.