ats.

Some nights before that set for the marriage, the eleventh night of the
month, the night of Huna, they came to Kawaihae; then he sent his
messenger, Frigate-bird, to get Poliahu to come thither to meet
Aiwohikupua on the day set for the marriage.

When the messenger returned from Poliahu, he told Poliahu's reply:
"Your wife commands that the marriage take place at Waiulaula. When you
look out early in the morning of the seventeenth, the day of Kulu, and
the snow clothes the summit of Maunakea, Maunaloa, and Hualalai,[56]
clear to Waiulaula, then they have reached the place where you are to
wed; then set out, so she says."

Then Aiwohikupua got ready to present himself with the splendor of a
chief.

Aiwohikupua clothed the chiefs and chiefesses and his two favorites in
feather capes and the women of his household in braided mats of Kauai.
Aiwohikupua clothed himself in his snow mantle that Poliahu had given
him, put on the helmet of _ie_ vine wrought with feathers of the red
_iiwi_ bird. He clothed his oarsmen and steersmen in red and white
_tapa_ as attendants of a chief; so were all his bodyguard arrayed.

On the high seat of the double canoe in which the chief sailed was set
up a canopied couch covered with feather capes, and right above the
couch the taboo signs of a chief, and below the sacred symbols sat
Aiwohikupua.

Following the chief and surrounding his canoe came ten double canoes
filled with expert dancers. So was Aiwohikupua arrayed to meet Poliahu.

On the seventeenth day, the day of Kulu, in the early morning, a little
later than sunrise, Aiwohikupua and his party saw the snow begin to hide
the summits of the mountain clear to the place of meeting.

Already had Poliahu, Lilinoe, Waiaie, and Kahoupokane arrived for the
chief's marriage.

Then Aiwohikupua set out to join the woman of the mountain. He went in
the state described above.

As Aiwohikupua was sailing from Kawaihae, Lilinoe rejoiced to see the
unrivaled splendor of the chief.

When they came to Waiulaula they were shivering with cold, so
Aiwohikupua sent his messenger to tell Poliahu, "They can not come for
the cold."

Then Poliahu laid off her mantle of snow and the mountain dwellers put
on their sun mantles, and the snow retreated to its usual place.

When Aiwohikupua and his party reached Poliahu's party the princess was
more than delighted with the music from the dancers accompanying the
chief's canoe and she praised his