568 HAWAIIAN ROMANCE OF LAIEIKAWAI [ETH. ANN. 33 
When their wailing was ended he asked, “ Whose child are you?” 
Said the sister, “ Mokukelekahiki’s, Kaeloikamalama’s, Moanalihai- 
kawaokele’s through Laukieleula.” 
Again the brother asked, “ What is your journey for?” 
Then she told him the same thing she had told the mother. 
When the chief heard these things, he turned to their mother and 
‘asked, “ Laukieleula, do you consent to my going to get the one 
whom she speaks of for my wife?” 
“T have already given you, as she requested me; if anyone else had 
brought her to get you, if she had not come to us two, she might have 
stayed below; grant your little sister’s request, for you first opened 
the pathway, she closed it: no one came before, none after her.” 
Thus the mother. 
After this answer Kaonohiokala asked further about her sisters 
and her brother. 
Then said Kahalaomapuana, “ My brother has not done right; he 
has opposed our living with this woman whom I am come to get you 
for. When he first went to woo this woman he came back again after 
us; we went with him and came to the woman’s house, the princess of 
whom I speak. That night we went to the uplands; in the midst 
of the forest there she dwelt with her grandmother. We stood out- 
side and looked at the workmanship of Laieikawai’s house, inwrought 
with the yellow feathers of the oo bird. 
“Mailehaiwale went to woo her, gained nothing, the woman re- 
fused; Mailekaluhea went, gained nothing at all; Mailelaulii went, 
gained nothing at all; Mailepakaha went, gained nothing at all; she 
refused them all; I remained, I never went to woo her; he went away 
in a rage leaving us in the jungle. 
“ When he left us, we followed; our brother’s rage waxed as if we 
had denied his wish. 
“Then it was we returned to where he left us, and the princess 
protected us, until I left to come hither; that is how we live.” 
When Kaonohiokala heard this story, he was angry. Then he 
said to Kahalaomapuana, “ Return to your sisters and to your friend, 
the princess; my wife she shall be; wait, and when the rain falls 
and floods the land, I am still here. 
“When the ocean billows swell and the surf throws white sand 
on the shore, I am still here; when the wind whips the air and for 
ten days lies calm, when thunder peals without rain, then I am at 
Kahakaekaea. 
“When the dry thunder peals again, then ceases, I have left the 
taboo house at the borders of Tahiti. I am at Kealohilani, my 
divine body is laid aside, only the nature of a taboo chief remains, 
and I am become a human being like you. 
