370 HAWAIIAN ROMANCE OF LAIEIKAWAI [ETH. ANN.-33 
Then said Kauakahialii: “ On the first night that she met my man 
she told him at what time she would reach the place where we were 
staying and the signs of her coming, for my man told her I was to 
be her husband and entreated her to come down with him; but she 
said: ‘Go back to this ward of yours who is to be my husband and 
tell him this night I will come. When rings the note of the oo bird 
I am not in that sound, or the a/a/a, I am not in that sound; when 
rings the note of the elepaio then am I making ready to descend; 
when the note of the apapane sounds, then am I without the door of 
my house; if you hear the note of the ziwipolena,® then am I without 
your ward’s house; seek me, you two, and find me without; that is 
your ward’s chance to meet me.” So my man told me. 
“When the night came that she had promised she did not come; 
we waited until morning; she did not come; only the birds sang. IL 
thought my man had lied. Kailiokalauokekoa and her friends were 
spending the night at Punahoa with friends. Thinking my man 
had led, I ordered the executioner to bind ropes about him; but he 
had left me for the uplands of Paliul to ask the woman why she 
had not come down that night and to tell her he was to die. 
“When he had told Laieikawai all these things the woman said 
to him, ‘ You return, and to-night I will come as I promised the night 
before, so will I surely do.’ 
“That night, the night on which the woman was expected, Kailio- 
kalauokekoa’s party had returned and she was recounting her adven- 
tures, when just at the edge of the evening rang the note of the oo; 
at 9 in the evening rang the note of the ala/a,; at midnight rang the 
note of the elepaio,; at dawn rang the note of the apapane; and at the 
first streak of ight rang the note of the dwipolena; as soon as it 
sounded there fell the shadow of a figure at the door of the house. 
Behold! the room was thick with mist, and when it passed away she 
lay resting on the wings of birds in all her beauty.” 
At these words of Kauakahialii to the chiefs, all the body of 
Aiwohikupua pricked with desire, and he asked, “ What was the 
woman’s name?” 
They told him it was Laieikawai, and such was Aiwohikupua’s 
longing for the woman of whom Kauakahialii spoke that he thought 
to make her his wife, but he wondered who this woman might be. 
Then he said to Kauakahiali: “I marvel what this woman may be, 
for I am a man who has made the whole circuit of the islands, but I 
never saw any woman resting on the wings of birds. It may be she 
is come hither from the borders of Tahiti, from within Moaula- 
nuiakea.” °° 
