esire it can do; if you go to get the wife your
friend charged you to, this will be the means of your meeting. You must
guard it forever; wherever you go to dwell, never leave the flute at
all, for you well know what your friend did when you two came to get me
when I was almost dead for love of your friend. It was this flute that
saved me from the other side of the grave; therefore, listen and guard
well my sayings."

CHAPTER XX

After Kailiokalauokekoa's death, the chief's house and all things else
became Kekalukaluokewa's, and he portioned out the land[61] and set up
his court.

After apportioning the land and setting up his court, Kekalukaluokewa
bethought him of his friend's charge concerning Laieikawai.

Then he commanded his counsellor to make ready 4,000 canoes for the
journey to Hawaii after a wife, according to the custom of a chief.

When the chief's command was carried out, the chief took two favorites,
a suitable retinue of chiefs, and all the embalmed bodies of his
ancestors.

In the month called "the first twin," when the sea was calm, they left
Kauai and came to Hawaii. Many days passed on the voyage.

As they sailed, they arrived in the early morning at Makahanaloa in
Hilo. Then said the man who had seen Laieikawai before to the chief,
"See that rainbow arching over the uplands; that is Paliuli, where I
found her." Now the rain was sweeping Hilo at the time when they came to
Makahanaloa.

At the man's words, the chief answered, "I will wait before believing
that a sign for Laieikawai; for the rainbow is common in rainy weather;
so, my proposal is, let us anchor the canoes and wait until the rain has
cleared, then if the rainbow remains when there is no rain, it must be a
sign for Laieikawai." The chief's proposal was the same as
Aiwohikupua's.

So they remained there as the chief desired. In ten days and two it
cleared over Hilo, and the country was plainly visible.

In the early morning of the twelfth day the chief went out of the house,
and lo! the rainbow persisted as before; a little later in the day the
rainbow was at the seacoast of Keaau; Laieikawai had gone to the coast
(as in the narrative before of Aiwohikupua's story).

That day there was no longer any doubt of the sign, and they sailed and
came to Keaau. When they arrived, Laieikawai had gone up to Paliuli.

When they arrived the people crowded to see Kekalukaluokewa and
exclaimed, "Kauai for handsome men!"

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