et fared in prison.

When the executioner came to the outside of the prison, he called with a
loud voice:

"O Hulumaniani! O Hulumaniani! Prophet of God! How are you? Are you
dead?" Three times the executioner called, but heard not a sound from
within.

The executioner returned to the chief and said, "The prophet is dead."

Then the chief commanded the head man of the temple to make ready for
the day of sacrifice and flay the prophet on the place of sacrifice
before the altar.

Now the seer heard this command from some distance away, and in the
night he took a banana plant covered with _tapa_ like a human figure and
put it inside the place where he had been imprisoned, and went back and
joined his daughters and told them all about his troubles.

And near the day of sacrifice at the temple, the seer took Laieikawai
and her companions on board of the double canoe.

In the very early morning of the day of sacrifice at the temple the man
was to be brought for sacrifice, and when the head men of the temple
entered the prison, lo! the body was tightly wrapped up, and it was
brought and laid within the temple.

And close to the hour when the man was to be laid upon the altar all the
people assembled and the chief with them; and the chief went up on the
high place, the banana plant was brought and laid directly under the
altar.

Said the chief to his head men, "Unwrap the _tapa_ from the body and
place it upon the altar prepared for it."

When it was unwrapped there was a banana plant inside, not the prophet,
as was expected. "This is a banana plant! Where is the prophet?"
exclaimed the chief.

Great was the chief's anger against the keeper of the prison where the
prophet was confined.

Then all the keepers were called to trial. While the chief's keepers
were being examined, the seer arrived with his daughters in a double
canoe and floated outside the mouth of the inlet.

The seer stood on one canoe and Aiwohikupua's sisters on the other, and
Laieikawai stood on the high seat between, under the symbols of a taboo
chief.

As they stood there with Laieikawai, the wind blew, the sun was
darkened, the sea grew rough, the ocean was reddened, the streams went
back and stopped at their sources, no water flowed into the sea.[69]
After this the seer took Laieikawai's skirt[70] and laid it down on the
land; then the thunder crashed, the temple fell, the altar crumbled.

After all these signs had been displayed, Aiwohi