544 HAWAIIAN ROMANCE OF LAIEIKAWAI [ETH. ANN. 33 
“We are sitting here, waiting for a canoe to carry us to Maui, 
Molokai, Oahu, and to Kauai, then we shall set sail,” so they an- 
swered. 
To this the seer replied, “If you are going to Kauai, then here is 
my canoe, a canoe without pay.” 
Said Laieikawai, “If we go on board your canoe, do you require 
anything of us?” 
The seer answered, “ Where are you? Do not suppose I have asked 
you on board my canoe in order to defile you; but my wish is to take 
you all as my daughters; such daughters as you can make my name 
famous, for my name will live in the saying, ‘The daughters of 
Hulumaniani, so my name shall live; is not this enough to desire?” 
Then the seer sought a canoe and found a double canoe with men 
to man it. 
Early in the morning of the next day they went on board the 
canoe and sailed and rested at Honuaula on Maui, and from there 
to Lahaina, and the next day to Molokai; they left Molokai, went to 
Laie, Koolauloa, and stayed there some days. 
On the day of their arrival at Laie, that night, Laieikawai said to 
her companions and to her foster father: 
“T have heard from my grandmother that this is my birthplace; 
we were twins, and because our father had killed the first children 
our mother bore, because they were girls, when we also were born 
girls, then I was hidden within a pool of water; there I was brought 
up by my grandmother. 
“ And my twin, the priest guarded her, and because the priest who 
guarded my companion saw the prophet who had come here from 
Kauai to see us, therefore the priest commanded my grandmother to 
flee far away; and this was why I was carried away to Paliuli and 
why we met there.” 
