350 HAWAIIAN ROMANCE OF LAIEIKAWAI [ ETH. ANN. 33 
Just at this time Hulumaniani was making a tour of Kauai in 
his character as the great seer of Kauai, and when he reached the 
summit of Kalalea he beheld the rainbow arching over Oahu; there 
he remained 20 days in order to be sure of the nature of the sign 
which he saw. By that time the seer saw clearly that it was the sign 
of a great chief—this rainbow arch and the two ends of a rainbow 
encircled in dark clouds. 
Then the seer made up his mind to go to Oahu to make sure about 
the sign which he saw. He left the place and went to Anahola to 
bargain for a boat to go to Oahu, but he could not hire a boat to 
goto Oahu. Again the seer made a tour of Kauai; again he ascended 
Kalalea and saw again the same sign as before, just the same as at 
first; then he came back to Anahola. 
While the seer was there he heard that Poloula owned a canoe at 
Wailua, for he was chief of that place, and he desired to meet Poloula 
to ask the chief for a canoe to go to Oahu. 
When Hulumaniani met Poloula he begged of him a canoe to go 
to Oahu. Then the canoe and men were given to him. That night 
when the canoe star rose they left Kauai, 15 strong, and came first 
to Kamaile in Waianae. 
Before the seer sailed, he first got ready a black pig, a white fowl, 
and a red fish. 
On the day when they reached Waianae the seer ordered the 
rowers to wait there until he returned from making the circuit of 
the island. 
Before the seer went he first climbed clear to the top of Mauna- 
lahilahi and saw the rainbow arching at Koolauloa, as he saw it 
when he was on Kalalea. 
He went to Waiapuka, where Laieikawai was being guarded, and 
saw no place there set off for chiefs to dwell in. Now, just as the 
seer arrived, Waka had vanished into that place where Laieikawai 
was concealed. 
As the seer stood looking, he saw the rippling of the water where 
Waka had dived. Then he said to himself: “ This is a strange thing. 
No wind ripples the water on this pool. It is like a person bathing, 
who has hidden from me.” After Waka had been with Laieikawai 
she returned, but while yet in the water she saw someone sitting above 
on the bank, so she retreated, for she thought it was Kahauokapaka, 
this person on the brink of the water hole. 
