CHAPTER XXIX 
When Kahalaomapuana returned from Kealohilani, from her jour- 
ney in search of a chief, she related the story of-her trip, of its wind- 
ings and twistings, and all the things she had seen while she was 
away. 
When she recited the charge given her by Kaonohiokala, Laieika- 
wai said to her companions, “O comrades, as Kahalaomapuana tells 
me the message of your brother and my husband, a strange forebod- 
ing weighs upon me, and I am amazed; I supposed him to be a man, 
a mighty god that! When I think of seeing him, however I may de- 
sire it, I am ready to die with fear before he has even come to us.” 
Her companions answered, “ He is no god; he is a man like us, yet" 
in his nature and appearance godlike. He was the firstborn of us; 
he was greatly beloved by our parents; to him was given superhuman 
powers which we have not, except Kahalaomapuana; only they two 
were given this power; his taboo rank still remains; therefore, do 
not fear; when he comes, you will see he is only a man like us.” 
Now, before Kahalaomapuana’s return from Kealohilani, the seer 
foresaw what was to take place, one month before her return. Then 
the seer prophesied, in these words: “A blessing descends upon us 
from the heavens when the nights of full moon come. 
“When we hear the thunder peal in dry weather and in wet, then 
we shall see over the earth rain and lightning, billows swell on the 
ocean, freshets on the land, land and sea covered thick with fog, 
fine mist and rain, and the beating of the ocean rain. 
“When this passes, on the day of full moon, in the dusk of the 
early morning, at the time when the sun’s rays strike the mountain 
tops, then the earth shall behold a youth sitting within the eye of the 
sun, one like the taboo child of my god. Afterwards the earth shall 
behold a great destruction and shall see all the haughty snatched 
away out of the land; then we shall be blessed, and our seed.” 
When his daughters heard the seer’s prophecy, they wondered 
within themselves that he should prophesy at this distance, without 
knowing anything about their sister’s mission for which they waited. 
As a prophet it was his privilege to proclaim about Kauai those 
things which he saw would come to pass. 
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