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CONTENTS.
I. Why the Duff left England.
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1
II. How the missionaries were received in Tahiti. 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 he walked round Tahiti
VII. More things remarked by the traveller.
VIII. A few incidents that occurred before the
Duff returned to England.
IX. The singular manners and the wicked cus-
toms of the people of Tahiti.
X. Sheep among wolves.
XI. A very great and unexpected change.
XII. A root of bitterness.
XIII. The cask of gunpowder.
XIV. A treacherous murder.
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336
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XV. A mysterious event.
125
XXI. The deaths of three of the royal family.
182
XXII. The first Tahitian who learned to write.
205
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.
XXXI. What the natives valued as much as they had
once valued red feathers.
XXXII. The chapel with three pulpits.
XXXIII. The new customs of Tahiti.
XXXIV. The royal babe.
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.
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XXXIX. The coronation of the little king.
. 368
. 382
XL. What befel Tahiti in the latter days of the
first missionaries.
The aged missionaries' hymn.
xi
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. 425
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.
II. Account of the second voyage of the ship Duff.
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431
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446
Papeete, or Wilks' Harbour, the principal port
in Tahiti
Map of the Georgian and Society Islands
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