CHAPTER II 
When the seer failed to see the sign which he was following he left 
Kamaoha, climbed clear to the top of Kaala, and there saw the rain- 
bow arching over Molokai. Then the seer left the place and jour- 
neyed around Oahu; a second time he journeyed around in order to 
be sure of the sign he was following, for the rainbow acted strangely, 
resting now in that place, now in this. 
On the day when the seer left Kaala and climbed to the top of 
Kuamooakane the rainbow bent again over Molokai, and there rested 
the end of the rainbow, covered out of sight with thunderclouds. 
Three days he remained on Kuamooakane, thickly veiled in rain 
and fog. 
On the fourth day he secured a boat to go to Molokai. He went on 
board the canoe and had sailed half the distance, when the paddlers 
grew vexed because the prophet did nothing but sleep, while the pig 
squealed and the cock crowed. 
So the paddler in front’ signed to the one at the rear to turn the 
canoe around and take the seer back as he slept. 
The paddlers turned the canoe around and sailed for Oahu. When 
the canoe turned back, the seer distrusted this, because the wind blew 
in his face; for he knew the direction of the wind when he left Oahu, 
and now, thought he, the wind is blowing from the seaward. 
Then the seer opened his eyes and the canoe was going back to 
Oahu. Then the seer asked himself the reason. But just to see for 
himself what the canoe men were doing, he prayed to his god, to 
Kuikauweke, to bring a great tempest over the ocean. 
As he prayed a great storm came suddenly upon them, and the 
paddlers were afraid. 
Then they awoke him: “ O you fellow asleep, wake up, there! We 
thought perhaps your coming on board would be a good thing for 
us. Not so! The man sleeps as if he were ashore.” 
When the seer arose, the canoe was making for Oahu. 
Then he asked the paddlers: “ What are you doing to me to take 
the canoe back again? What have I done?” 
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