kupua and the others saw
Laieikawai standing above the canoes under the symbol of a taboo chief.
Then the assembly shouted aloud, "O the beautiful woman! O the beautiful
woman! How stately she stands!"

Then the men ran in flocks from the land down to the sea beach; one
trampled on another in order to see.

Then the seer called out to Aiwohikupua, "Your keepers are not guilty;
not by their means was I freed from prison, but by my god, who has saved
me from many perils; and this is my lord.

"I spoke truly; this is my daughter, my lord, whom I went to seek, my
preserver."

And when Aiwohikupua looked upon Laieikawai his heart trembled, and he
fell to the ground as if dead.

When the chief recovered he commanded his head man to bring the seer and
his daughter to fill the place of Poliahu and Hinaikamalama.

The head man went and called out to the seer on the canoe and told him
the chief's word.

When the seer heard it he said to the head man, "Return and tell the
chief, my lord indeed, that my lordly daughter shall never become his
wife; she is chief over all the islands."

The head man went away; the seer, too, went away with his daughters, nor
was he seen again after that at Wailua; they returned and dwelt at
Honopuwaiakua.

CHAPTER XXVII

In this chapter we will tell how Kahalaomapuana went to get
Kaonohiokala, the Eyeball-of-the-Sun, the betrothed husband of
Laieikawai, and of her return.

After Kahalaomapuana had laid her commands upon her sisters she made
preparation for the journey.

At the rising of the sun Kahalaomapuana entered inside Kihanuilulumoku
and swam through the ocean and came to The Shining Heavens; in four
months and ten days they reached Kealohilani.

When they arrived they did not see Mokukelekahiki, the guard who watches
over Kaonohiokala's wealth, his chief counsellor in The Shining Heavens;
twice ten days they waited for Mokukelekahiki to return from his garden
patch.

Mokukelekahiki returned while the lizard was asleep inside the house;
the head alone filled that great house of Mokukelekahiki's, the body and
tail of the lizard were still in the sea.

A terrible sight to Mokukelekahiki to see that lizard; he flew away up
to Nuumealani, the Raised Place in the Heavens; there was
Kaeloikamalama, the magician who closes the door of the taboo house on
the borders of Tahiti, where Kaonohiokala was hidden.

Mokukelekahiki told Kaeloikamalama how he had seen the lizard. The