Chapter XXXII

People Gather at a Feast, and to Decide what to do with the Mormons--Threats to have Roast Missionary--Saints hold Prayer and Testimony Meeting--Kept Awake all Night--Council of Natives Decides to Roast and Eat me--Fire is Built--Men Sent to Drag me to the Council--Promises of Presidents Brigham Young and Willard Richards Come to my Mind--All Fear Is Banished--Saints and Their Enemies Ordered to Separate--All but Two Mormons Stand by me--Sublime Courage of a Native and His Wife--The Charge Against Me--I Appeal to the Bible, but our Enemies Refuse to be Guided by the Law of God--Notified of the Decision that I am to be Burned--Spirit of the Lord Rests upon me in Great Power, Inspiring me to Defy our Enemies--Spirit of Confusion Enters our Foes--They Quarrel and Fight With Each Other--Difficulty In Restraining Church Members--Deliverance which the Lord Wrought out for me--I am Allowed to proceed Unmolested--Meet a Member of the Council which Condemned me to Death--His Testimony that a Pillar of Light Descended from Heaven and Rested on me, Filling them with Fear--No more Anti-Mormon Councils--Natives show no Disposition to Receive the Gospel.

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.

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.

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.

CHAPTER XXXVI.

Arrive at San Francisco--A Wrecked Ship--The _Abyssinia_ Condemned--Gathering Wreckage--Drunken sailors--My Trunk Held for Hospital Fees--Go Ashore, where all Is Changed and Strange--My Dilapidated Appearance--Seek Guidance of the Lord--Wander Almost in Despair--Meet an Old Friend--Find a Home--My Trunk Released--Meet Elders Going on Missions--Well Treated by Saints and Strangers--Providences of the Lord--Outward Bound Elders Entrusted Money to me for their Families--Engage to Carry Mail to Los Angeles--On a Steamer for San Pedro--Taken Severely Ill.