570 HAWAIIAN ROMANCE OF LAIEIKAWAI [ETH. ANN. 33 
“ After this, hearken, and when the thunder rolls, the rain pours 
down, the ocean swells, the land is flooded, the lightning flashes, a 
mist overhangs, a rainbow arches, a colored cloud rises on the ocean, 
for one month bad weather closes down,’* when the storm clears, 
there I am behind the mountain in the shadow of the dawn. 
“Wait here and at daybreak, when I leave the summit of the 
mountain, then you shall see me sitting within the sun in the center 
of its ring of light, encircled by the rainbow of a chief. 
“ Still we shall not yet meet; our meeting shall be in the dusk of 
evening, when the moon rises on the night of full moon; then I will 
meet my wife. 
“ After our marriage, then I will bring destruction over the earth 
upon those who have done you wrong. 
“Therefore, take a sign for Laieikawai, a rainbow; thus shall I 
know my wife.” 
These words ended, she returned by the same way that she had 
climbed up, and within one month found Kihanuilulumoku and 
told all briefly, “We are all right; we have prospered.” 
She entered into Kihanuilulumoku and swam over the ocean; as 
many days as they were in going, so many were they in returning. 
They came to Olaa. Laieikawai and her companions were gone: 
the lizard smelled all about Hawaii; nothing. They went to Maui; 
the lizard smelled about; not a trace. 
He sniffed about Kahoolawe, Lanai, Molokai. Just the same. 
They came to Kauai; the lizard sniffed about the coast, found noth- 
ing; sniffed inland; there they were, living at Honopuwaiakua, and 
Kihanuilulumoku threw forth Kahalaomapuana. 
The princess and her sisters saw her and rejoiced, but a stranger 
to the seer was this younger sister, and he was terrified at sight of 
the lizard; but because he was a prophet, he stilled his fear. 
Eleven months, ten days, and four days over it was since Kahala- 
omapuana left Laieikawai and her companions until their return 
from The-shining-heavens. 
