CHAPTER XI 
During this very last song of Kahalaomapuana’s, Aiwohikupua’s 
heart filled with love, and he called out for the canoe to back up, but 
Kahalaomapuana had been left far behind, so swiftly were the men 
paddling, and by the time the canoe had turned about to pick her up 
she was not to be found. 
Here we must leave Aiwohikupua for a little and tell about his 
sisters, then speak again about Aiwohikupua. 
When Aiwohikupua’s party forsook his sisters at Honolii and 
took Kahalaomapuana with them, the girls mourned for love of their 
younger sister, for they loved Kahalaomapuana better than their 
parents or their native land. 
While they were still mourning Kahalaomapuana appeared by 
the cliff; then their sorrow was at an end. 
They crowded about their younger sister, and she told them what 
had happened to her and why she had returned, as has been told in ° 
the chapter before. 
After talking of all these things, they consulted together where 
they might best live, and agreed to go back to Paliuli. 
After their council they left Honolii and returned to the uplands 
of Paliuli, to a place near Laieikawai’s house, and lived there inside 
of hollow trees. 
And because they wished so much to see Laieikawai they spied 
out for her from day to day, and after many days of spying they 
had not had the least sight of her, for every day the door was fast 
closed. 
So they consulted how to get sight of Laieikawai, and after seek- 
ing many days after some way to see the princess of Paliuli they 
found none. 
During this debate their younger sister did not speak, so one of her 
older sisters said, “ Kahalaomapuana, all of us have tried to devise 
a way to see Laieikawai, but we have not found one; perhaps you 
have something in mind. Speak.” 
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