564 HAWATIAN ROMANCE OF LAIEIKAWAI [ETH. ANN. 33 
Then the girl took the things as directed and returned to her father, 
She had not been there long; the mother came in a rage; Moana- 
lihaikawaokele absented himself and only the daughter remained in 
the house. 
“© Moanalihaikawaokele, give me back my polluted clothes, let 
me take them to wash in the water.” No answer; three times she 
called, not once an answer; she peeped into the house where Kahala- 
omapuana lay sleeping, her head covered with a clean piece of tapa. 
She called, “O Moanalihaikawaokele, give me back my polluted 
skirt; let me take it to wash in the water.” 
Then Kahalaomapuana started up as if she had been asleep and 
said to her mother, “My mother and ruler, he has gone; only I 
am in the house; that polluted skirt of yours, here it is.” 
“Alas! my ruler. I shrink with fear of evil for you, because you 
have guarded my skirt that was polluted; what recompense is there 
for the evil I fear for you, my ruler?” 
She embraced the girl and wailed out the words in the line above. 
When she had ceased wailing, the mother asked, “ On what journey 
do you come hither to us?” 
“T come to get my older brother for a husband for our friend, 
the princess of the great broad land of Hawaii, Laieikawai, our 
protector when we were lovelessly deserted by our older brother; 
therefore we are ashamed; we have no way to repay the princess 
for her protection; and for this reason permit me and my princely 
brother to go down below and bring Laieikawai up here.” These 
were Kahalaomapuana’s words to her mother. 
The mother said, “I grant it in recompense for your guarding my 
polluted garment. 
“Tf anyone else had come to get him, I would not have consented ; 
since you come in person, I will not keep him back. 
“Tndeed, your brother has said that you are the one he loves 
best and thinks the most of; so let us go up and see your brother. 
“Now you wait here; let me call the bird guardian of you two, 
who will bear us to the taboo house at the borders of Tahiti,” 
