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gods and become followers of the god Christ. 
And to prove that they did not lie they said 
to Tati and his people— 
“ Come to the ship, and see the gods of 
Tahiti, whose names are Oro and Tane and 
Orotetefa ; come and see how we, and those 
men of Tahiti who are sailors on the ship, 
despise the old gods.” 
So Tati, and many of the chiefs, with Matara 
the priest, went into the boat with the two 
missionaries, and when they reached the ship, 
they saw hanging by ropes from the yards of 
the ship many scores of the gods of Tahiti 
and Bora-bora and Raiatea, and in the belly of 
the ship they saw hundreds of the wooden gods 
of many other islands, lying heaped together 
in contempt. And then many Tahitians who 
were in the ship, came to them, and urged them 
to do with the gods of Vahitahi as they of 
Tahiti had done with those of their own 
land. 
“For see,” they said, “these are but wood 
and stone and feathers and fit but to spit 
upon ; there is but one true God and He is 
Christ.” 
Tati and those with him were filled with 
