496 HAWAIIAN ROMANCE OF LAIEIKAWAI (ETH. ANN. 33 
When they arrived the people crowded to see Kekalukaluokewa 
and exclaimed, “ Kauai for handsome men! ” 
On the day when Kekalukaluokewa sailed and came to Keaau, 
Waka foresaw this Kekalukaluokewa. 
Said Waka to her grandchild, “ Do not go again to the coast, for 
Kekalukaluokewa has come to Keaau to get you for his wife. 
Kauakahialii is dead, and has charged his favorite to take you to 
wife; therefore this is your husband. If you accept this man you 
will rule the island, surely preserve these bones. Therefore wait 
up here four days, then go down, and if you like him, then return 
and tell me your pleasure.” 
So Laieikawai waited four days as her grandmother commanded. 
In the early morning of the fourth day of retirement, she arose 
and went down with her hunchbacked attendant to Keaau. 
When she arrived close to the village, lo! Kekalukaluokewa was 
already out surf riding; three youths rose in the surf, the chief and 
his favorites. 
As Laieikawai and her companion spied out for Kekalukaluokewa, 
they did not know which man the grandmother wanted. 
Said Laieikawai tosher nurse, “ How are we to know the man whom 
my grandmother said was here?” 
Her nurse said, “ Better wait until they are through surfing, and 
the one who comes back without a board, he is the chief.” 
So they sat and waited. 
Then, the surf riding ended and the surfers came back to shore. 
Then they saw some men carrying the boards of the favorites, 
but the chief’s board the favorites bore on their shoulders, and 
Kekalukaluokewa came without anything. So Laieikawai looked 
upon her husband. 
When they had seen what they had come for, they returned to 
Paliuli and told their grandmother what they had seen. 
Asked the grandmother, “ Were you pleased with the man?” 
“Yes,” answered Laieikawai. 
