3848 HAWAIIAN ROMANCE OF LAIEIKAWAI [ETH. ANN. 33 
At the end of this talk, Malaekahana went back to the house, and 
when the pains came upon her, almost at the moment of birth, then 
Malaekahana remembered the priest’s counsel to her. 
When the pain had quieted, Malaekahana said to her husband, 
“ Listen, Kahauokapaka! the spawn of the manini come before my 
eyes; go after them, therefore, while they are yet afloat in the mem- 
brane; possibly when you bring the manini spawn, I shall be eased 
of the child; this is the first time my labor has been hard, and that 
I have craved the young of the manini; go quickly, therefore, to the 
fishing.” 
Then Kahauokapaka went out of the house at once and set out. 
While they were gone the child was born, a girl, and she was given 
to Waka, and they named her Laieikawai. As they were attending 
to the first child, a second was born, also a girl, and they named her 
Laielohelohe. 
After the girls had been carried away in the arms of Waka and 
Kapukaihaoa, Kahauokapaka came back from the fishing, and asked 
his wife, “ How are you?” 
Said the woman, “I have born an abortion and have thrown it 
into the ocean.” 
Kahauokapaka already knew of the birth while he was on the 
ocean, for there came two claps of thunder; then he thought that 
the wife had given birth. At this time of Laieikawai and Laielohe- 
lohe’s birth thunder first sounded in October,® according to the 
legend. 
When Waka and Kapukaihaoa had taken their foster children 
away, Waka said to Kapukaihaoa, “ How shall we hide our foster 
children from Kahauokapaka ? ” 
Said the priest, “ You had better hide your: foster child in the 
water hole of Waiapuka: a cave is there which no one knows about, 
and it will be my business to seek a place of protection for my 
foster child.” 
Waka took Laieikawai where Kapukaihaoa had directed, and there 
she kept Laieikawai hidden until she was come to maturity. 
Now, Kapukaihaoa took Laielohelohe to the uplands of Wahiawa, 
to the place called Kukaniloko.? 2 
All the days that Laieikawai was at Waiapuka a rainbow arch 
was there constantly, in rain or calm, yet no one understood the 
nature of this rainbow, but such signs as attend a chief were always 
present wherever the twins were guarded. 
