his person on the brink
of the water hole.

Waka returned to her foster child, and came back at twilight and spied
to discover where the person had gone whom she saw, but there was the
seer sitting in the same place as before. So Waka went back again.

The seer remained at the edge of the pool, and slept there until
morning. At daybreak, when it was dawn, he arose, saw the sign of the
rainbow above Kukaniloko, forsook this place, journeyed about Oahu,
first through Koolaupoko; from there to Ewa and Honouliuli, where he saw
the rainbow arching over Wahiawa; ascended Kamaoha, and there slept over
night; but did not see the sign he sought.

CHAPTER II

When the seer failed to see the sign which he was following he left
Kamaoha, climbed clear to the top of Kaala, and there saw the rainbow
arching over Molokai. Then the seer left the place and journeyed around
Oahu; a second time he journeyed around in order to be sure of the sign
he was following, for the rainbow acted strangely, resting now in that
place, now in this.

On the day when the seer left Kaala and climbed to the top of
Kuamooakane the rainbow bent again over Molokai, and there rested the
end of the rainbow, covered out of sight with thunderclouds. Three days
he remained on Kuamooakane, thickly veiled in rain and fog.

On the fourth day he secured a boat to go to Molokai. He went on board
the canoe and had sailed half the distance, when the paddlers grew vexed
because the prophet did nothing but sleep, while the pig squealed and
the cock crowed.

So the paddler in front[8] signed to the one at the rear to turn the
canoe around and take the seer back as he slept.

The paddlers turned the canoe around and sailed for Oahu. When the canoe
turned back, the seer distrusted this, because the wind blew in his
face; for he knew the direction of the wind when he left Oahu, and now,
thought he, the wind is blowing from the seaward.

Then the seer opened his eyes and the canoe was going back to Oahu. Then
the seer asked himself the reason, But just to see for himself what the
canoe men were doing, he prayed to his god, to Kuikauweke, to bring a
great tempest over the ocean.

As he prayed a great storm came suddenly upon them, and the paddlers
were afraid.

Then they awoke him: "O you fellow asleep, wake up, there! We thought
perhaps your coming on board would be a good thing for us. Not so! The
man sleeps as if he were ashore."

When the seer arose, t