and her companion had left Kalaeloa, at daybreak, the
seer arose and saw that clouds and falling rain obscrued the sea between
Molokai and Lanai with a thick veil of fog and mist.

Three days the veil of mist hid the sea, and on the fourth day the
seer's stay at Kaamola, in the very early morning, he saw an end of the
rainbow standing right above Maunalei. Now the seer regretted deeply not
finding the person he was seeking; nevertheless he was not discouraged
into dropping the quest.

About 10 days passed at Molokai before he saw the end of the rainbow
standing over Haleakala; he left Molokai, went first to Haleakala, to
the fire pit, but did not see the person he was seeking.

When the seer reached there, he looked toward Hawaii; the land was veiled
thick in cloud and mist. He left the place, went to Kauwiki, and there
built a place of worship[13] to call upon his god as the only one to
guide him to the person he was seeking.

Whenever the seer stopped in his journeying he directed the people, if
they found the person he was following, to search him out wherever he
might be.

At the end of the days of consecration of the temple, while the seer was
at Kauwiki, near the night of the gods Kane and Lono,[14] the land of
Hawaii cleared and he saw to the summit of the mountains.

Many days the seer remained at Kauwiki, nearly a year or more, but he
never saw the sign he had followed thither.

One day in June, during the first days of the month, very early in the
morning, he caught a glimpse of something like a rainbow at Koolau on
Hawaii; he grew excited, his pulse beat quickly, but he waited long and
patiently to see what the rainbow was doing. The whole month passed in
patient waiting; and in the next month, on the second day of the month,
in the evening, before the sun had gone down, he entered the place of
worship prepared for his god and prayed.

As he prayed, in the midst of the place appeared to the seer the spirit
forms[15] of Laieikawai and her grandmother; so he left off praying, nor
did those spirits leave him as long as it was light.

That night, in his sleep, his god came to him in a vision and said: "I
have seen the pains and the patience with which you have striven to find
Waka's grandchild, thinking to gain honor through her grandchild. Your
prayers have moved me to show you that Laieikawai dwells between Puna
and Hilo in the midst of the forest, in a house made of the yellow
feathers of the _oo_ b