362 HAWAIIAN ROMANCE OF LAIEIKAWAI [ETH. ANN. 33 
Now the high chief of Molokai heard his voice plainly, so the chief 
quieted the crowd and listened to what the stranger was shouting 
about, for as he looked at the man he saw that his face was full of 
joy and gladness. 
At the chief’s command the man was summoned before the chief 
and he asked, “ What news do you proclaim aloud with glad face be- 
fore the assembly?” 
Then the man told why he shouted and why his face was glad in 
the presence of the chief: “In the early morning yesterday, while I 
was working over the cance, intending to sail to Lanai, a certain 
woman came with her daughter, but I could not see plainly the 
daughter’s face. But while we were talking the girl unveiled her 
face. Behold! I saw a girl of incomparable beauty who rivaled all 
the daughters of the chiefs of Molokai.” 
When the chief heard these words he said, “ If she is as good look- 
ing as my daughter, then she is beautiful indeed.” 
At this saying of the chief, the man begged that the chiefess be 
shown to him, and Kaulaailehua, the daughter of the chief, was 
brought thither. Said the man, “ Your daughter must be in four 
points more beautiful than she is to compare with that other.” 
Replied the chief, “She must be beautiful indeed that you scorn 
our beauty here, who is the handsomest girl in Molokai.” 
Then ‘the man said fearlessly to the chief, “Of my judgment of 
beauty I can speak with confidence.” ” 
As the man was talking with the chief, the seer remained listening 
to the conversation; it just came to him that this was the one whom 
he was seeking. 
So the seer moved slowly toward him, got near, and seized the man 
by the arm, and drew him quietly after him. 
When they were alone, the seer asked the man directly, “ Did you 
know that girl before about whom you were telling the chief?” 
The man denied it and said, “ No; I had never seen her before; 
this was the very first time; she was a stranger to me.” 
So the seer thought that this must be the person he was seeking, 
and he questioned the man closely where they were living, and the 
man told him exactly. 
After the talk, he took everything that he had prepared for sacri- 
fice when they should meet and departed. 
