CHAPTER XXVII 
In this chapter we will tell how Kahalaomapuana went to get 
Kaonohiokala, the Eyeball-of-the-Sun, the betrothed husband of 
Laieikawai, and of her return. 
After Kahalaomapuana had laid her commands upon her sisters 
and made preparation for the journey, 
At the rising of the sun Kahalaomapuana entered inside Kiha- 
nuilulumoku and swam through the ocean and came to The Shining 
Heavens; in four months and ten days they reached Kealohilani. 
When they arrived they did not see Mokukelekahiki, the guard 
who watches over Kaonohiokala’s wealth, his chief counsellor in The 
Shining Heavens; twice ten days they waited for Mokukelekahiki 
to return from his garden patch. 
Mokukelekahiki returned while the lizard was asleep inside the 
house; the head alone filled that great house of Mokukelekahiki’s, 
the body and tail of the lizard were still in the sea. 
A terrible sight to Mokukelekahiki to see that lizard; he flew away 
up to Nuumealani, the Raised Place in the Heavens; there was Kaeloi- 
kamalama, the magician who closes the door of the taboo house on 
the borders of Tahiti, where Kaonohiokala was hidden. 
Mokukelekahiki told Kaeloikamalama how he had seen the lizard. 
Then Kaeloikamalama flew down with Mokukelekahiki from the 
heights of Nuumealani, the land in the air. 
As Mokukelekahiki and his companion approached the house where 
the lizard was sleeping, then said Kihanuilulumoku to Kaha- 
laomapuana, “ When those men get here who are flying toward us, 
then I will throw you out and land you on Kaeloikamalama’s neck, 
and when he questions you, then tell him you are a child of theirs, 
and when he asks what our journey is for, then tell him.” 
Not long after, Mokukelekahiki and Kaeloikamalama thundered 
at the door of the house. 
When the lizard looked, there stood Kaeloikamalama with the 
digging spade called Kapahaelihonua, The Knife-that-cuts-the- 
earth, twenty fathoms its length, four men to span it. Thought the 
lizard, “ A slaughterer this.” There was Kaeloikamalama swinging 
the digging spade in his fingers. 
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