398 HAWAIIAN ROMANCE OF LAIEIKAWAI [ETH. ANN. 33 
At the chief’s proposal they anchored their canoes in the sea, and 
Aiwohikupua went up with his counsellor to Kukululaumania to 
the houses of the natives of the place and stayed there waiting for 
pleasant weather. After four days it cleared over Hilo; the whole 
country was plainly visible, and Panaewa lay bare. 
On this fourth day in the early morning Aiwohikupua awoke and 
went out of the house, lo! the rainbow arching where they had seen 
it before; long the chief waited until the sun came, then he went in 
and aroused his counsellor and said to him: “ Here! perhaps you 
were right; I myself rose early while it was still dark, and went 
outside and actually saw the rainbow arching in the place you had 
pointed out to me, and I waited until sunrise—still the rainbow! 
And I came in to awaken you.” 
The man said: “ That is what I told you; if we had gone we should 
have been staying up there in Paliuli all these days where she is.” 
That morning they left Makahanaloa and sailed out to the harbor 
of Keaau. 
They sailed until evening, made shore at Keaau and saw Kaua- 
kahialii’s houses standing there and the people of the place out 
surf riding. When they arrived, the people of the place admired 
Aiwohikupua as much as ever. 
The strangers remained at Keaau until evening, then Aiwohikupua 
ordered the steersmen and rowers to stay quietly until the two of 
them returned from their search for a wife, only they two alone. 
At sunset Aiwohikupua caught up his feather cloak and gave it to 
the other to carry, and they ascended. 
They made way with difficulty through high forest trees and 
thickets of tangled brush, until, at a place close to Paliuli, they heard . 
the crow of a cock. The man said to his chief: “ We are almost out.” 
They went on climbing, and heard a second time the cock crow 
(the cock’s second crow this). They went on climbing until a great 
light shone. 
The man said to his chief, “ Here! we are out; there is Laieikawai’s 
grandmother calling together the chickens as usual.” *° 
Asked Aiwohikupua, “ Where is the princess’s house ?” 
Said the man, “ When we get well out of the garden patch here, 
then we can see the house clearly.” 
