CHAPTER IX.

A sketch of the Samoan mission—The Rev. John Williams determines to visit the Navigator’s Isles—Preliminary work in the Hervey group—Discovery of Rarotonga—Conversion of its people—They help Williams to build a ship which shall convey him to Samoa—Visit Tonga—Proceed to Samoa—Overthrow of idolatry—Reverence for old mats—Williams’s grave at Apia, 118