Rice — Hawaiian Legetids 107 



When the girl awoke in the morning her nurse told her the words she 

 had heard. Kaili-lau-o-kekoa was greatly excited and said, "Today we 

 shall sleep all day so that I may be awake at midnight, for I must hear 

 this voice from the hills when it calls me." 



So they slept until evening. Then they played koiuuie to keep them- 

 selves awake. At midnight they heard the flute voice calling, "Kaili- 

 lau-o-kekoa, do you sleep in Puna? Is not the surf high?" 



"I do not sleep. I shall search for you until I find you," answered the 

 breathless Kaili-lau-o-kekoa. 



Then she and her nurse started on their search. They climbed up the 

 mountain side and at daylight reached Kuamoo. 



When the sister of the flute player saw these two women coming, she 

 sent the heavy mist and the blinding rain to delay their journey. They 

 found shelter in a hollow tree and when the rain had ceased they went on. 

 Kaili-lau-o-kekoa soon saw a house where a bright fire was burning. 



As the two women approached the house of Ka-hale-lehua, the sister 

 of the flute-player, she took pity on them, and welcomed them. She took 

 ofif their wet clothes, and gave them each a dry pa'tc. Then she prepared 

 a meal for her unbidden guests. She placed before them a platter of 

 Hpoa limn, choice sea-weed, and little striped manini fish, still alive. 

 Kaili-lau-o-kekoa was greatly surprised to see the live fish, and said to her 

 nurse, "We live near the sea yet we never have live fish. This place is 

 far from the sea. How is it that the fish are still alive?" 



Her hostess answered her by saying that she and her brother had 

 a fish pond near their house. 



After the meal was finished Kaili-lau-o-kekoa went in search of the 

 flute that had called her away from home. She came to the room of 

 Kaua-kahi-alii and found the flute hidden in his breast. At once a great 

 love for this chief filled the heart of the girl, and she forgot her fond 

 parents and stayed with him. 



When the parents of Kaili-lau-o-kekoa found that their daughter was 

 gone, they began to search for her. At last they came to the house where 

 she was living with the young chief, and carried them both to Kapaa. 

 There they tied the chief to a post in a house. 



The first day he was given nothing to eat. On the second day a boy 

 passed by, and, seeing the prisoner, asked if he had been given any food 

 or water. When he heard that he had received none, he returned to his 

 parents and made known to them the chief's condition. They ordered 

 their son to put water in a coconut shell, and to get another one for food, 



