376 HAWAIIAN ROMANCE OF LATEIKAWAI [ETH. ANN. 33 
“Where are you? Do not talk while I am sleeping; if one even 
whispers, if he is chief over a district he shall lose his chiefship; if 
he is chief over part of a district, he shall lose his chiefship; and if a 
tenant farmer break my command, death is the penalty.” 
The chief took this oath because of his strong desire to sleep 
longer in order to make Laieikawai’s acquaintance in his dream. 
After speaking all these words, he tried once more to sleep, but 
he could not get to sleep until the sun went down. 
During all this time he did not tell anyone about what he saw in 
the dream; the chief hid it from his usual confidant, thinking when 
it came again, then he would tell his chief counsellor. 
And because of the chief’s longing to dream often, he commanded 
his chief counsellor to chew awa. 
So the counsellor summoned the chief’s awa chewers and made 
ready what the chief commanded, and he brought it to him, and the 
chief drank with his counsellor and drunkenness possessed him. 
Then close above the chief rested the beloved image of Laieikawai 
as if they were already lovers. Then he raised his voice in song, as 
follows: 7? 
“Rising fondly before me, 
The recollection of the lehua blossom of Puna, 
Brought hither on the tip of the wind, 
By the light keen wind of the fiery pit. 
Wakeful—sleepless with heart longing, 
With desire—O!” 
Said the counsellor to the chief, after he had ended his singing, 
“This is strange! You have had no woman since we two have been 
living here, yet in your song you chanted as if you had a woman 
here.” 
Said the chief, “ Cut short your talk, for I am cut off by the drink.” 
Then the chief fell into a deep sleep and that ended it, for so heavy 
was the chief’s sleep that he saw nothing of what he had desired. 
A night and a day the chief slept while the effects of the awa 
lasted. Said the chief to his counsellor, “ No good at all has come 
from this awa drinking of ours.” 
The counsellor answered, “ What is the good of awa drinking? 
T thought the good of drinking was that admirable scaley look of 
the skin?” ?8 
Said the chief, “ Not so, but to see Laieikawai, that is the good 
of awa drinking.” 
After this the chief kept on drinking awa many days, perhaps a 
year, but he gained nothing by it, so he quit it. , 
