CONTENTS.

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1. Wby the Duff left England.

1

II. How the missionaries were received in Tabiti. 6

III. What the missionaries did during the first

week they spent in Tahiti.

12

IV. How the missionaries attempted to do good

to the natives.

24

V. What happened during the absence of the ship. 31

VI. Many curious and strange things that a tra-

veller remarked as be walked round Tahiti 40

VII. More things remarked by the traveller. 55

VIII. A few incidents that occurred before the

Duff returned to England.

36

IX. The singular manners and the wicked cus-

toms of the people of Tahiti.

68

X. Sheep among wolves.

80

XI. A very great and unexpected change. 91

XII. A root of bitterness.

102

XIII. The cask of gunpowder.

112

XIV. A treacherous murder.

XV. A mysterious event.

125

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XVI. Pomare's offering to the true God.

· 138

XVII. A second root of bitterness.

XVIII. A very pleasant surprise.

153

XIX. How the missionaries fortified their house in

• 144

time of war.

163

XX. How the natives behaved when the mission-

aries preached.

175

XXI. The deaths of three of the royal family. 182

XXII. The first Tahitian who learned to write. 189

XXIII. Darker days than any that had gone before. . 205

XXIV. Brighter days than any that bad gone before. 218

XXV. The joyful discovery.

233

XXVI. How the idols were publicly insulted. 240

XXVII. The battle which changed the state of Tahiti. 249

XXVIII. The wilderness turned into a garden.

258

XXIX. The Baba.

269

XXX. Questions the natives asked about religion. 283

XXXI. What the natives valued as much as they had

once valued red feathers.

. 294

XXXII. The chapel with three pulpits.

305

XXXIII. The new customs of Tahiti.

316

XXXIV. The royal babe.

. 325

XXXV. The strangers from the solitary isle. . 331

XXXVI. The court and palace of Pomare II.

340

XXXVII. What the heathen felt for those still in dark.

ness.

. 352

. 368

XXXVIII. The royal marriage.

XXXIX. The coronation of the' little king.

. 382

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XL. What befel Tabiti in the latter days of the

first missionaries.

394

The aged missionaries' hymn.

. 425

Principal events that occurred during the mission to Tahiti.

428

A short account of Tahiti, and the neighbouring islands.

431

APPENDIX.

I. Testimonies to the happiness and good character of

the inhabitants of the Christian Islands in the South

• 410

Seas.

II. Account of the second voyage of the ship Duff.

LIST OF THE PLATES.

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The Missionaries' house at Matavai Frontispiece A marae, or temple

55 An embalmed body

61 Papetoai, in the island of Eimeo

222 Some of Pomare's family idols

. 263 Portrait of Pomare II.

. 344 Chapel in Huahine

356 Papeete, or Wilks' Harbour, the principal port in Tahiti

384 Map of the Georgian and Society Islands

To face p. 430