540 HAWAIIAN ROMANCE OF LAIEIKAWAI [ETH. ANN. 33 
After saying all this, Kahalaomapuana left her sisters and was 
borne on the back of the big lizard Kihanuilulumoku and went to 
fetch IKaonohiokala. 
At this place we will leave off speaking of this journey; we must 
tell about Laieikawai and her meeting with the prophet who fol- 
lowed her from Kauai hither, as related in the first two chapters of 
this story. 
After Kahalaomapuana left her sisters, the desire grew within 
Laieikawai’s mind to travel around Hawaii. 
So her companions carried out the chief’s wish and they set out to 
travel around about Hawaii. 
On the princess’s journey around Hawaii they went first to Kau, 
then Kona, until they reached Kaiopae in Kohala, on the right-hand 
side of Kawaihae, about five miles distant; there they stayed several 
days for the princess to rest. 
During the days they were there the seer saw the rainbow arching 
over the sea as if right at Kawaihae. The uplands of Ouli at Waimea 
was the place the seer looked from. 
For in former chapters it has been told how the seer came to Hilo, 
to Kaiwilahilahi, and lived there some years waiting for the sign he 
was seeking. 
But when it did not come to the seer as he waited for the sign he 
was seeking, then he waited and sought no longer for the sign he 
had followed from Kauai to this place. 
So he left Hilo, intending to go all the way back to Kauai, and he 
set out. On his return, he did not leave the offerings which he had 
brought from Kauai thither, the pig and the cock. 
When he reached Waimea, at Ouli, there he saw the rainbow arch- 
ing over the sea at Kawaihae. 
And the seer was so weary he was not quick to recognize the rain- 
bow, but he stayed there, and on the next day he did not see the sign 
again. 
Next day the seer left the place, the very day when Laieikawai’s 
party left Kaiopae, and came back above Kahuwa and stopped at 
Moolau. 
When the seer reached Puuloa from Waimea, he saw the rainbow 
arching over Moolau; then the seer began to wonder, “Can that be 
the sign I came to seek?” 
The seer kept right on up to the summit cf Palalahuakii. There 
he saw the rainbow plainly and recognized it, and knew it was the 
sign he was seeking, 
