I know it is vain for me to beg for mercy, for you will not spare my life.

You may kill my body, but you cannot hurt my soul, for I have begun to pray to JESUS." On hearing this, his bearers set him on the ground, put one stone under his head, and beat out his brains with another, and thus died the last Tahitian sacrifice, truly baptized in his own blood.

The other gods besides Oro were numerous, and there were also many animals supposed to be possessed with familiar spirits.

A chief was once in the cabin of a ship where there was a talking cockatoo: the moment the bird spoke he rushed away in the utmost terror, leapt overboard, and swam for his life, convinced that he had heard the captain's demon.
The chief of Raiatea was named Tamatoa, and was a man of considerable power.

Two years previously the Tahitian king, Pomare, nineteen of his subjects, and a missionary named Wilson had been driven thither in a canoe by stress of weather; and what Tamatoa had heard from them had so impressed him that he had persuaded his people to build a place of worship, observe the Sunday, and meet to repeat together the scant lessons they had been able to receive during the visit of the Tahitians.
This led to a resolve to entreat for the presence of a missionary among them; and the chieftain himself came to Huahime to make the request.
Williams longed to go, but, as the youngest minister, waited till all the rest had decided to the contrary, and then gladly accepted his lot to go with Tamatoa.