James S. Brown's Experience Previous to Being Sent as a Missionary to the Society Islands--Remarkable Predictions by Presidents Brigham Young and Willard Richards--Perilous Journey to California--Tragic Fate of Most of the Company--Arrival in San Francisco--Landing in Tahiti--Opposition from Priests and Ministers--Governor of French Protectorate Arrayed Against Him--Elders Scatter Out--Lewd Women Instigated by Ministers try to Entrap him--His First Convert--Recognized by a Native who had seen him in a Dream. CHAPTER II. Catholic Priests Jealous of his Success--Arrested on a Trumped-up Charge--Tried Before Governor's Aid-de-Camp--Frightful Scene Among a School of Whales--Farce of a Trial before the Governor of the Protectorate--Inspired to Plead his Own Cause--Impression Made Upon the Governor--American Consul's Friendly Act--Banished from Tahiti--Befriended by a Queen. CHAPTER III. Land Among Cannibals--Denounced as the American Plant--His Destruction Demanded--Sentenced to be Roasted and Eaten--Fire Prepared--His Defiance of the Rabid Host--Effect Upon the Wild Horde Who Were Eager to Roast and Devour Him--Fierce Fight Among His Opponents. PARKIN REMINISCENCE. CHAPTER I. Promise to Pay Money With Only Faith to Back It--How the Money was Provided--Lesson His Wife Drew From It. CHAPTER II. Ashamed to Pay Tithing--Loss of Crop--Lesson He Learned By It--Potatoes Purchased to Pay Delinquent Tithing--No Loss of Potato Crop Since. CHAPTER III. Farming on Shares--A New Vocation--Future Home Shown in Vision--Home Recognized When First Seen in Utah--Reputation Gained as a Faithful and Thorough Worker--Providential Fulfillment of Vision--Home Viewed as a Sacred Heritage. CHAPTER IV. Ambitious to Work in a Goal Mine--Day Spent in Mine as a Spectator--Fatal Accident--His Narrow Escape from Being a Victim. CHAPTER V. Resort to Mining--Caught in a Snowslide--Carried a Mile Down the Mountain As If Fired From a Catapult--Miraculous Escape--Fails to Find Companion--Return to Mine and Then Home--Companion's Subsequent Escape. CHAPTER VI. Father John Parkin a Pugilist--Defends a Mormon Elder--Shelters Him From a Storm and Learns Something of Mormonism--Whole Family Embrace the Gospel. CHAPTER VII. Selling a Load of Carrots to An Ex-Missionary, Whose Parsimony is Exhibited--Some Reflections Thereon. A SAILOR-SAINT'S ADVENTURES. CHAPTER I. E. R. S. Schnelle's Belief in a Providence Over His Life--Birth and Succession of Accidents--Goes to Sea as Cabin Boy--Gruel Treatment--Pumping Sugar and Water--Ship Crushed Against Breakwater--Reckless Jump--Woes as a Cook. CHAPTER II. Embarks as Ordinary Seaman--Captain's Premonition and Sailors' Fear--Amazone Wrecked--Dying Sailor's Vision--Grewsome Seat--a Typhoon--Ship Seized by French--Travel in Russia--Finds A Wife--Converted to "Mormonism." CHAPTER III.