was displeased at these words of Waka to him.

He said to the strangers, "Let me not think of asking you to paddle the
canoe; for I hold you to be persons of importance."

Now it was not the man's intention to look for a mate to paddle the
canoe with him, but as he had already determined, so now he vowed within
him to go and spread around Molokai the news about Laieikawai.

When they had done speaking the paddler left them and went away as he
had vowed.

As he went he came first to Kaluaaha and slept at Halawa, and here and
on the way there he proclaimed, as he had vowed, the beauty of
Laieikawai.

The next day, in the morning, he found a canoe sailing to Kalaupapa, got
on board and went first to Pelekunu and Wailau; afterwards he came to
Waikolu, where the seer was staying.

When he got to Waikolu the seer had already gone to Kalaupapa, but this
man only stayed to spread the news of Laieikawai's arrival.

When he reached Kalaupapa, behold! a company had assembled for boxing;
he stood outside the crowd and cried with a loud voice:[11] "O ye men of
the people, husbandmen, laborers, tillers of the soil; O ye chiefs,
priests, soothsayers, all men of rank in the household of the chief! All
manner of men have I beheld on my way hither; I have seen the high and
the low, men and women; low chiefs, the _kaukaualii_, men and women;
high chiefs, the _niaupio_, and the _ohi_; but never have I beheld
anyone to compare with this one whom I have seen; and I declare to you
that she is more beautiful than any of the daughters of the chiefs on
Molokai or even in this assembly."

Now when he shouted, he could not be heard, for his voice was smothered
in the clamor of the crowd and the noise of the onset.

And wishing his words to be heard aright, he advanced into the midst of
the throng, stood before the assembly, and held up the border of his
garment and repeated the words he had just spoken.

Now the high chief of Molokai heard his voice plainly, so the chief
quieted the crowd and listened to what the stranger was shouting about,
for as he looked at the man he saw that his face was full of joy and
gladness.

At the chief's command the man was summoned before the chief and he
asked, "What news do you proclaim aloud with glad face before the
assembly?"

Then the man told why he shouted and why his face was glad in the
presence of the chief: "In the early morning yesterday, while I was
working over the canoe, intending to