586 HAWAHAN ROMANCE OF LAIBIKAWATI [ETH. ANN. 23 
After Laieikawai had lived three months above, Kaonohiokala 
went down to look after his sister’s welfare, and returned to 
Laieikawai; so he did until the third year, and after three years 
of going below to see after his sisters, lo! Laielohelohe was full- 
grown and her beauty had increased and surpassed that of her sister, 
Laieikawai’s. 
Not at this time, however, did Kaonohiokala fall into sin, but his 
sinful longing had its beginning. 
On every trip Kaonohiokala took to do his work below, for four 
years, lo! Laielohelohe’s loveliness grew beyond what he had seen 
before, and his sinful lust increased mightily, but by his nature 
as a child of god he persisted in checking his lust; for perhaps a 
minute the lust flew from him, then it clung to him once more. 
In the fifth year, at the end of the first quarter, Kaonohiokala 
went away to do his work below. 
At that time virtue departed far from the mind of Kaonohiokala 
and he fell into sin. ; 
Now at this time, when he met his sisters, the prophet and his 
punalua and their wife (Laielohelohe), Kaonohiokala began to redis- 
tribute the land, so he called a fresh council. 
And to carry out his evil purpose, he transferred his sisters to be 
guards over the land called Kealohilani, and arranged that they 
should live with Mokukelekahiki and have charge of the land with 
him. 
When some of his sisters saw how much greater the honor was to 
become chiefs in a land they had never visited, and serve with Moku- 
kelekahiki there, they agreed to consent to their brother’s plan. 
But Kahalaomapuana would not consent to return to Kealohilani, 
for she cared more for her former post of honor than to return to 
Kealohilani. 
And in refusing, she spoke to her brother as follows: “ My high 
one, as to your sending us to Kealohilani, let them go and I will 
remain here, living as you first placed me; for I love the land and 
the people and am accustomed to the life; and if I stay below here 
and you above and they between, then all will be well, just as we were 
born of our mother; for you broke the way, your little sisters fol- 
lowed you, and I stopped it up; that was the end, and so it was.” 
