Rice — Hazvaiian Legends 25 



man struggling in the sea, and had selected him as a husband for her 

 whom they must all obey. 



Her parents said, "Now great happiness dwells with us. If your grand- 

 father had refused to allow you to marry the man from the sea, we would 

 have given him to your younger sister." 



The marriage of Kaanaelike and Kaeweaoho was celebrated by a great 

 luau. 



During the years that Kaewaeoho had ruled his people on Hawaii his 

 fame had spread to all the islands, for he had cared tenderly for his sub- 

 jects and had given them a wise and just rule. 



At his disappearance his bird sisters had flown over the world hunting 

 for him. At last, after he had been married to Kaanaelike for six months, 

 they found him on Ulukaa. As he lay on the sand they cast him into 

 deep sleep. A dream came to him. He heard a voice saying, "You are 

 living in peace with your beautiful wife while your people far away are 

 going up and down the land mourning for you. Your sacred temple has 

 been desecrated ; your bundles of tapa have been used by evil ones ; your 

 atva has been drunk; your sacred landing has been used; your parents 

 mourn so that they are no longer able to eat, and sleep comes not often to 

 them. O King, beloved by all, sleep now, but when you awake return to 

 your land for which you had such great aloha." 



When Kaeweaoho awoke he was surprised to find that he had heard 

 this voice in a dream. Three times the same dream came to him. He be- 

 came very heavy-hearted. He wanted to return to Hawaii, but he had no 

 canoe. Hourly this dream, like an image, haunted him. As he remembered 

 his aged, grief-stricken parents and his unhappy subjects, tears filled his 

 eyes. 



When his wife noticed his sad demeanor, she cried, "O my Man-from- 

 the-Sea, why do your tears flow? Have my parents been unkind to you?" 



To these words her husband replied, "Your parents have not been 

 unkind to me. I weep because I pine for my native land. On your island 

 I am called the Man-from-the-Sea. In my land I am a great king. The 

 island of Hawaii is my kingdom." 



Kaanaelike went weeping to her parents and told them that her hus- 

 band was the king of Hawaii, and that grief because of his treatment on 

 their island filled her heart. 



Her parents knew that the king of Hawaii was called Kaeweaoho. They 

 told their daughter to ask her husband his name. If he replied "Kae- 

 weaoho," she would know that he was not deceiving her. 



