he canoe was making for Oahu.
Then he asked the paddlers: "What are you doing to me to take the canoe
back again? What have I done?"
Then the men said: "We two wearied of your constant sleeping and the
pig's squealing and the cock's crowing; there was such a noise; from the
time we left until now the noise has kept up. You ought to have taken
hold and helped paddle. Not so! Sleep was the only thing for you!"
The seer said: "You two are wrong, I think, if you say the reason for
your returning to Oahu was my idleness; for I tell you the trouble was
with the man above on the seat, for he sat still and did nothing."
As he spoke, the seer sprang to the stern of the canoe, took charge of
the steering, and they sailed and came to Haleolono, on Molokai.
When they reached there, lo! the rainbow arched over Koolau, as he saw
it from Kuamooakane; he left the paddlers, for he wished to see the sign
which he was following.
He went first clear to the top of Waialala, right above Kalaupapa.
Arrived there, he clearly saw the rainbow arching over Malelewaa, over a
sharp ridge difficult to reach; there, in truth, was Laieikawai hidden,
she and her grandmother, as Kapukaihaoa had commanded Waka in the
vision.
For as the seer was sailing over the ocean, Kapukaihaoa had
foreknowledge of what the prophet was doing, therefore he told Waka in a
vision to carry Laieikawai away where she could not be found.
After the seer left Waialala he went to Waikolu right below Malelewaa.
Sure enough, there was the rainbow arching where he could not go. Then
he considered for some time how to reach the place to see the person he
was seeking and offer the sacrifice he had prepared, but he could not
reach it.
On the day when the seer went to Waikolu, the same night, came the
command of Kapukaihaoa to Laieikawai in a dream, and when she awoke, it
was a dream. Then Laieikawai roused her grandmother, and the grandmother
awoke and asked her grandchild why she had roused her.
The grandchild said to her: "Kapukaihaoa has come to me in a dream and
said that you should bear me away at once to Hawaii and make our home in
Paliuli; there we two shall dwell; so he told me, and I awoke and
wakened you."
As Laieikawai was speaking to her grandmother, the same vision came to
Waka. Then they both arose at dawn and went as they had both been
directed by Kapukaihaoa in a vision.
They left the place, went to Keawanui, to the place called Kaleloa, and
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