550 HAWAIIAN ROMANCE OF LAIEIKAWATI (ETH. ANN. 3s 
In the morning the chief sent the executioner to go and see how 
the prophet fared in prison. 
When the executioner came to the outside of the prison, he called 
with a loud voice: 
“QO Hulumaniani! O Hulumaniani! Prophet of God! How 
are you? Are you dead?” Three times the executioner called, 
‘but heard not a sound from within. 
The executioner returned to the chief and said, “The prophet 
is dead.” 
Then the chief commanded the head man of the temple to make 
ready for the day of sacrifice and flay the prophet on the place 
of sacrifice before the altar. 
Now the seer heard this command from some distance away, and 
in the night he took a banana plant covered with ¢fapa like a human 
figure and put it inside the place where he had been imprisoned, 
and went back and joined his daughters and told them all about 
his troubles. 
And near the day of sacrifice at the temple, the seer took 
Laieikawai and her companions on board of the double canoe. 
In the very early morning of the day of sacrifice at the temple 
the man was to be brought for sacrifice, and when the head men 
of the temple entered the prison, lo! the body was tightly wrapped 
up, and it was brought and laid within the temple. 
And close to the hour when the man was to be laid upon the altar 
all the people assembled and the chief with them; and the chief went 
up on the high place, the banana plant was brought and Jaid directly 
under the altar. 
Said the chief to his head men, “‘ Unwrap the tapa from the body 
and place it upon the altar prepared for it.” 
When it was unwrapped there was a banana plant inside, not the 
prophet, as was expected. “This is a banana plant! Where is the 
prophet?” exclaimed the chief. 
-Great was the chief’s anger against the keeper of the prison where 
the prophet was confined. 
Then all the keepers were called to trial. While the chief’s keepers 
were being examined, the seer arrived with his daughters in a double 
canoe and floated outside the mouth of the inlet. 
The seer stood on one canoe and Aiwohikupua’s sisters on the other, 
and Laieikawai stood on the high seat between, under the symbols of 
a taboo chief. 
As they stood there with Laieikawai, the wind blew, the sun was 
darkened, the sea grew rough, the ocean was reddened, the streams 
went back and stopped at their sources, no water flowed into the 
sea.°® After this the seer took Laieikawai’s skirt“ and laid it down 
on the land; then the thunder crashed, the temple fell, the altar 
crumbled. 
