612 HAWAIIAN ROMANCE OF LAIEIKAWAI [ETH. ANN. 33 
Very early next morning, at the time when the sun’s warmth began 
to spread over the earth, she went to spy out Laukieleula; she was 
just asleep. 
When she saw she was asleep Laieikawai did as Moanalihaika- 
waokele had directed, and she went as he had instructed her. 
When she came to the gourd, the one called “ the gourd of wisdom,” 
she lifted the cover from the gourd and bent her head to the mouth of 
the gourd, and she called the name of the gourd, then she began to 
see all that was happening at a distance. 
At noon Laieikawai’s eyes glanced downward, lo! Kaonohiokala 
sinned with Laielohelohe. 
Then Laieikawai went and told Moanalihaikawaokele about it, say- 
ing, “I have employed the power you gave me, but while I was 
looking my high lord sinned; he did evil with my sister; for the 
first time I understand why his business takes him so long down 
below.” 
Then Moanalihaikawaokele’s wrath was kindled, and Laukieleula 
heard it also, and her parents-in-law went to the gourd—lo! they 
plainly saw the sin committed as Laieikawai had said. 
That day they all came together, Laieikawai and her parents-in- 
law, to see what to do about Kaonohiokala, and they came to their 
decision. ; 
Then the pathway was let down from Kahakaekaea and dropped 
before Kaonohiokala; then Kaonohiokala’s heart beat with fear, be- 
cause the road dropped before him; not for long was Kaonohiokala 
left to wonder. , 
Then the air was darkened and it was filled with the ery of wailing 
spirits and the voice of Jamentation—*‘ The divine one has fallen! 
The divine one has fallen!!” And when the darkness was over, lo! 
Moanalihaikawaokele and Laukieleula and Laieikawai sat above the 
rainbow pathway. 
And Moanalihaikawaokele said to Kaonohiokala, “ You have 
sinned, O Kaonohiokala, for you have defiled yourself and, there- 
fore, you shall no longer have a place to dwell within Kahakaekaea, 
and the penalty you shall pay, to become a fearsome thing on the 
highway and at the doors of houses, and your name is Lapu, Vanity, 
and for your food you shall eat moths; and thus shall you live and 
your posterity.” 
Then was the pathway taken from him through his father’s super- 
natural might. Then they returned to Kahakaekaea. 
In this story it is told how Kaonohiokala was the first ghost on 
these islands, and from his day to this, the ghosts wander from place 
to place, and they resemble evil spirits in their gature.7° 
