CONTENTS.

I. Why the Duff left England.

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II. How the missionaries were received in Tahiti. 6

III. What the missionaries did during the first

week they spent in Tahiti.

IV. How the missionaries attempted to do good

to the natives.

12

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

VI. Many curious and strange things that a tra-

veller remarked as he walked round Tahiti 40

VII. More things remarked by the traveller.

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VIII. A few incidents that occurred before the

Duff returned to England.

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IX. The singular manners and the wicked cus-

toms of the people of Tahiti.

X. Sheep among wolves.

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XVI. Pomare's offering to the true God.

XVII. A second root of bitterness.

XVIII. A very pleasant surprise.

XIX. How the missionaries fortified their house in

time of war.

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XX. How the natives behaved when the mission-

aries preached.

XXI. The deaths of three of the royal family.

XXII. The first Tahitian who learned to write.

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XXIII. Darker days than any that had gone before.

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

XXV. The joyful discovery.

XXVI. How the idols were publicly insulted.

XXVII. The battle which changed the state of Tahiti.

XXVIII. The wilderness turned into a garden.

XXIX. The Baba.

XXX. Questions the natives asked about religion.

XXXI. What the natives valued as much as they had

once valued red feathers.

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XXXV. The strangers from the solitary isle.

XXXVI. The court and palace of Pomare II.

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

ness.

XXXVIII. The royal marriage.

XXXIX. The coronation of the little king.

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CONTENTS.

XL. What befel Tahiti in the latter days of the

first missionaries.

The aged missionaries' hymn.

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Principal events that occurred during the mission to Tahiti.

A short account of Tahiti, and the neighbouring islands.

APPENDIX.

I. Testimonies to the happiness and good character of

the inhabitants of the Christian Islands in the South

Seas.

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

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Papeete, or Wilks' Harbour, the principal port

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