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ОглавлениеMiraculous 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.
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.
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.
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.
