CHAPTER XX 
After Kailiokalauokekoa’s death, the chief’s house and all things 
else became Kekalukaluokewa’s, and he portioned out the land® and 
set up his court. 
After apportioning the land and setting up his court, Kekalukaluo- 
kewa bethought him of his friend’s charge concerning Laieikawai. 
Then he commanded his counsellor to make ready 4,000 canoes for 
the journey to Hawaii after a wife, according to the custom of a 
chief. 
When the chief’s command was carried out, the chief took two 
favorites, a suitable retinue of chiefs, and all the embalmed bodies of 
his ancestors. 
In the month called “the first twin,” when the sea was calm, they 
left Kauai and came to Hawaii. Many days passed on the voyage. 
As they sailed, they arrived in the early morning at Makahanaloa 
in Hilo. Then said the man who had seen Laieikawai before to the 
chief, “See that rainbow arching over the uplands; that is Paliuli, 
where I found her.” Now the rain was sweeping Hilo at the time 
when they came to Makahanaloa. 
At the man’s words, the chief answered, “I will wait before be- 
lieving that a sign for Laieikawai; for the rainbow is common in 
rainy weather; so, my proposal is, let us anchor the canoes and wait 
until the rain has cleared, then if the rainbow remains when there is 
no rain, it must be a sign for Laieikawai.” ‘The chief’s proposal was 
the same as Aiwohikupua’s. 
So they remained there as the chief desired. In ten days and two 
it cleared over Hilo, and the country was plainly visible. 
In the early morning of the twelfth day the chief went out of the 
house, and lo! the rainbow persisted as before; a little later in the 
day the rainbow was at the seacoast of Keaau; Laieikawai had gone 
to the coast (as in the narrative before of Aiwohikupua’s story). 
That day there was no longer any doubt of the sign, and they 
sailed and came to Keaau. When they arrived, Laieikawai had gone 
up to Paliul. 
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