610 HAWAIIAN ROMANCE OF LAIEIKAWAI [ETH. ANN. 83 
Four months passed of their amorous meetings; this long absence 
of Kaonohiokala’s seemed strange to Laieikawai, he had been away 
four months; and as Laieikawai wondered at the long absence, 
Kaonohiokala returned. 
Laieikawai asked, “Why were you gone four months? You have 
not done so before.” 
Said Kaonohiokala, “ Laielohelohe has had trouble with her hus- 
band; Kekalukaluokewa has taken a stranger to wife, and this is 
why I was so long away.” 
Then Laieikawai said to her husband, “Get your wife and bring 
her up here and let us live together.” 
Therefore, Kaonohiokala left Laieikawai and went away, as Laiei- 
kawai thought, to carry out her command. Not so! 
On this journey Kaonohiokala stayed away a year; now Laiei- 
kawai did not think her husband’s long stay strange, she laid it to 
Laielohelohe’s troubles with Kekalukaluokewa. 
Then she longed to see how it was with her sister, so Laieikawai 
went to her father-in-law and asked, “ How can I see how it is with 
my sister, for I have heard from my husband and high one that 
Laielohelohe is having trouble with Kekalukaluokewa, and so I have 
sent Kaonohiokala to fetch the woman and return hither; but he has 
not come back, and it is a year since he went, so give me power to 
see to that distant place to know how it is with my relatives.” 
Then said Moanalihaikawaokele, her father-in-law, “Go home and 
look for your mother-in-law ; if she is asleep, then go into the taboo 
temple; if you see a gourd plaited with straw and feathers mounted 
’ on the edge of the cover, that is the gourd. Do not be afraid of the 
great birds that stand on either side of the gourd, they are not real 
birds, only wooden birds; they are plaited with straw and inwrought 
with feathers. And when you come to where the gourd is standing 
take off the cover, then put your head into the mouth of the gourd 
and call out the name of the gourd, ‘ Laukapalili, Trembling Leaf, 
give me wisdom.’ Then you shall see your sister and all that is hap- 
pening below. Only when you call do not call in a loud voice; 
it might resound; your mother-in-law, Laukieleula, might hear, the 
one who guards the gourd of wisdom.” 
Laukieleula was wont to watch the gourd of wisdom at night, and 
by day she slept. 
