François Caret

He arrived there in 1829 and made a fortune selling contraband run, gin, and brandy which Queen Pōmare IV had banned on the advice of British missionary George Pritchard.

On his way back to France in 1834, Moerenhout stopped in Boston, and subsequently returned to Tahiti with the title Consul of the United States.

[2] Although received courteously, by the Protestant Queen Pōmare IV, they were subsequently expelled on the advice of Pritchard.

On 30 May 1838, he embarked on the Zelima out of Bordeaux with four other priests, two catechists, and a shipment of clothes provided by the ladies of France.

Efforts to establish a mission in Tahiti were hampered by the government, but by autumn 1842 Caret built a house out of dried brick, which Herman Melville visited that same year.

[7] Caret died of consumption at the age of forty-two on 26 October 1844 in Rikitea while making his way back to Bordeaux.