CHAPTER XVIII. 
After the dismissal of Snipe and his fellow, the chief dispatched 
Frigate-bird, one of his nimble messengers, with the same errand as 
before. 
Frigate-bird went to Poliahu; when they met, Frigate-bird gave 
the chief’s command, according to the words spoken in Chapter 
XVII of this story. Having given his message, the messenger re- 
turned and reported aright; then his lord was pleased. 
Aiwohikupua waited until the end of the third month; the chief 
took his underchiefs and his favorites and the women of his house- 
hold and other companions suitable to go with their renowned lord 
in all his royal splendor on an expedition for the marriage of chiefs. 
On the twenty-fourth day of the month Aiwohikupua left Kauai, 
sailed with 40 double canoes, twice 40 single canoes, and 20 provision 
boats. 
Some nights before that set for the marriage, the eleventh night 
of the month, the night of Huna, they came to Kawaihae; then he 
sent his messenger, Frigate-bird, to get Poliahu to come thither to 
meet Aiwohikupua on the day set for the marriage. 
When the messenger returned from Poliahu, he told Poliahu’s 
reply: “Your wife commands that the marriage take place at 
Waiulaula. When you look out early in the morning of the seven- 
teenth, the day of Kulu, and the snow clothes the summit of Mauna- 
kea, Maunaloa, and Hualalai,®® clear to Waiulaula, then they have 
reached the place where you are to wed; then set out, so she says.” 
Then Aiwohikupua got ready to present himself with the splendor 
of a chief. 
Aiwohikupua clothed the chiefs and chiefesses and his two favor- 
ites in feather capes and the women of his household in braided mats 
of Kauai. Aiwohikupua clothed himself in his snow mantle that 
Poliahu had given him, put on the helmet of ze vine wrought with 
feathers of the red ziwe bird. He clothed his oarsmen and steersmen 
in red and white ¢apa as attendants of a chief; so were all his body- 
guard arrayed. 
On the high seat of the double canoe in which the chief sailed was 
set up a canopied couch covered with feather capes, and right above 
the couch the taboo signs of a chief, and below the sacred symbols sat 
Aiwohikupua. 
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