Raiatea was his first home, Rarotonga his second.

There he placed his family, which long consisted of his one boy, John, born in Tahiti, all Mrs.Williams's subsequent babes scarcely living to see the light, until, in the sixteenth year of her Polynesian life, another son rejoiced her.

She became a centre and pattern of domestic life, and instructed the women in feminine habits, and she patiently encountered the anxieties and perils, chiefly from storm and hurricane, that beset her life.

The chief troubles that Mr.Williams encountered at Raiatea, were the vices that civilization brought.

After old Tamatoa's death, his son allowed a distillery to be established, and drunkenness threatened to overthrow the habits so diligently taught.