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Tahiti Matavai 17th of February 1813
My dear friends May Jehovah and Jesus Christ bless you and me also, this evil man whose crimes are accumulated. I perfectly agree to your request in your letter you lately wrote to me, my Dear Friends, in which you desire my permission to cut down the Tamance & Amac. Cut them down without regarding consequences for a keel for our Vessels what will be the consequence? shall we be destroyed by the evil spirits? We cannot be destroyed by them. We have a great Saviour Jesus Christ. where you lead regardless of consequences, I this evil man will follow. The three One can (or will) make me good. I venture with my guilt / or evil deeds to Jesus Christ; tho' I am not equaled in wickedness, not equaled in guilt, not equaled in obstinate disobedience & rejection of the truth, thus this very wicked man may be saved by Jehovah and Jesus Christ. I have a daughter born, Saturday the 3rd of the present February is the day she was born: I did not know of her birth being at Hetea'a; by the time we came here to Matavai she was born.
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