552 HAWAIIAN ROMANCE OF LAIEIKAWAI [ETH. ANN. 33 
After all these signs had been displayed, Aiwohikupua and the 
others saw Laieikawai standing above the canoes under the symbol 
of a taboo chief. Then the assembly shouted aloud, “ O the beautiful 
woman! O the beautiful woman! How stately she stands! ” 
Then the men ran in flocks from the land down to the sea beach; 
one trampled on another in order to see. 
Then the seer called out to Aiwohikupua, “ Your keepers are not 
guilty; not by their means was I freed from prison, but by my god, 
who has saved me from many perils; and this is my lord. 
“T spoke truly; this is my daughter, my lord, whom I went to seek, 
my preserver.” 
And when Aiwohikupua looked upon Laieikawai his heart trem- 
bled, and he fell to the ground as if dead. 
When the chief recovered he commanded his head man to bring 
the seer and his daughter to fill the place of Poliahu and Hinaika- 
malama. ' 
The head man went and called out to the seer on the canoe and told 
him the chief’s word. 
When the seer heard it he said to the head man, “ Return and tell 
the chief, my lord indeed, that my lordly daughter shall never be- 
come his wife; she is chief over all the islands.” 
The head man went away; the seer, too, went away with his 
daughters, nor was he seen again after that at Wailua; they re- 
turned and dwelt at Honopuwaiakua. 
