366 HAWAIIAN ROMANCE OF LAIEIKAWAI [ETH. ANN. 38 
Many days the seer remained at Kauwiki, nearly a year or more, 
but he never saw the sign he had followed thither. 
One day in June, during the first days of the month, very early 
in the morning, he caught a glimpse of something like a rainbow at 
Koolau on Hawaii; he grew excited, his pulse beat quickly, but he 
waited long and patiently to see what the rainbow was doing. The 
whole month passed in patient waiting; and in the next month, on 
the second day of the month, in the evening, before the sun had gone 
down, he entered the place of worship prepared for his god and 
prayed. 
As he prayed, in the midst of the place appeared to the seer the 
spirit forms’ of Laieikawai and her grandmother; so he left off 
praying, nor did those spirits leave him as long as it was light. 
That night, in his sleep, his god came to him in a vision and said: 
“T have seen the pains and the patience with which you have striven 
to find Waka’s grandchild, thinking to gain honor through her grand- 
child. Your prayers have moved me to show you that Laieikawai 
dwells between Puna and Hilo in the midst of the forest, in a house 
made of the yellow feathers of the oo bird"; therefore, to-morrow, 
rise and go.” 
He awoke from sleep; it was only a dream, so he doubted and 
did not sleep the rest of the night until morning. 
And when it was day, in the early morning, as he was on Kauwiki, 
he saw the flapping of the sail of a canoe down at Kaihalulu. He 
ran quickly and came to the landing, and asked the man where the 
boat was going. The man said, “It is going to Hawai”; thereupon 
he entreated the man to take him, and the latter consented. 
The seer returned up Kauwiki and brought his luggage, the things 
he had got ready for sacrifice. 
When he reached the shore he first made a bargain with them: 
“ You paddlers, tell me what you expect of me on this trip; what- 
ever you demand, I will accede to; for I was not well treated by the 
men who brought me here from Oahu, so I will first make a bargain 
with you men, lest you should be like them.” 
The men promised to do nothing amiss on this trip, and the talk 
ended; he boarded the canoe and set out. 
On the way they landed first at Mahukona in Kohala, slept there 
that night, and in the morning the seer left the paddlers, ascended 
to Lamaloloa, and entered the temple of Pahauna,"? an ancient temple 
belonging to olden times and preserved until to-day. 
