Arriving at Tahiti on 15 November he soon found interest in luxuriant vegetation and the pleasant intelligent natives who showed the benefits of Christianity, refuting allegations he had read about tyrannical missionaries overturning indigenous cultures.
Ao chegaren a Tahití o 15 de novembro en seguida encontrou interese na vizosa vexetación e os nativos intelixentes amables que mostraban os beneficios da Cristiandade, refutando as alegacións que lera sobre misioneiros tiránicos que anulaban as culturas indíxenas.