360 HAWAIIAN ROMANCE OF LAIEIKAWAI [BTEH. ANN. 33 
Said the host, “O daughter, not so; I shall not forsake you; but I 
must look for a mate to paddle you both to Lanai.” 
And at these words, Waka said to their host, “ If that is the reason 
for your going away, leaving us in charge of everything in your 
house, then let me say, we can help you paddle.” 
The man was displeased at these words of Waka to him. 
He said to the strangers, “ Let me not think of asking you to paddle 
the canoe; for I hold you to be persons of importance.” 
Now it was not the man’s intention to look for a mate to paddle 
the canoe with him, but as he had already determined, so now he 
vowed within him to go and spread around Molokai the news about 
Laieikawai. 
When they had done speaking the paddler left them and went away 
as he had vowed. 
As he went he came first to Kaluaaha and slept at Halawa, and 
here and on the way there he proclaimed, as he had vowed, the beauty 
of Laieikawai. 
‘The next day, in the morning, he found a canoe sailing to Kalau- 
papa, got on board and went first to Pelekunu and Wailau; after- 
wards he came to Waikolu, where the seer was staying. 
When he got to Waikolu the seer had already gone to Kalaupapa, 
but this man only stayed to spread the news of Laieikawat’s arrival. 
When he reached Kalaupapa, behold! a company had assembled for 
boxing; he stood outside the crowd and cried with a loud voice:"! 
“© ye men of the people, husbandmen, laborers, tillers of the soil; O 
ye chiefs, priests, soothsayers, all men of rank in the household of the 
chief! All manner of men have I beheld on my way hither; I have 
seen the high and the low, men and women; low chiefs, the kau- 
haualii, men and women; high chiefs, the niawpio, and the oh, but 
never have I beheld anyone to compare with this one whom I have 
seen; and I declare to you that she is more beautiful than any of the 
daughters of the chiefs on Molokai or even in this assembly.” 
Now when he shouted, he could not be heard, for his voice was 
smothered in the clamor of the crowd and the noise of the onset. 
And wishing his words to be heard aright, he advanced into the 
midst of the throng, stood before the assembly, and held up the 
border of his garment and repeated the words he had just spoken. 
