400 HAWAIIAN ROMANCE OF LAIEIKAWAI [ETH. ANN. 33 
When Aiwohikupua saw that they were approaching Laieikawai’s 
house, he asked for the feather cloak to hold in his hand when they 
met the princess of Paliuli. 
The garden patch passed, they beheld Laieikawai’s house covered 
with the yellow feathers of the vo bird, as the seer had seen in his 
vision from the god on Kauwiki. 
When Aiwohikupua saw the house of the princess of Paliuli, he 
felt strangely perplexed and abashed, and for the first time he felt 
doubtful of his success. 
And by reason of this doubt within him he said to his companion, 
“Where are you? We have come boldly after my wife. I supposed 
her just an ordinary woman. Not so! The princess’s house has no 
equal for workmanship; therefore, let us return without making our- 
selves known.” 
Said his counsellor, “This is strange, after we have reached the 
woman’s house for whom we have swum eight seas, here you are 
begging to go back. Let us go and make her acquaintance, whether 
for failure or success; for, even if she should refuse, keep at it; we 
men must expect to meet such rebuffs; a canoe will break on a coral 
reeks. isc 
“Where are you?” answered Aiwohikupua. “We will not meet 
the princess, and we shall certainly not win her, for I see now the 
house is no ordinary one. I have brought my cloak wrought with 
feathers for a gift to the princess of Paliuli and I behold them here 
as thatch for the princess’s house; yet you know, for that matter, 
even a cloak of feathers is owned by none but the highest chiefs; so 
let us return.” And they went back without making themselves 
known. 
