e low chiefs, and the country aristocracy as well, to see
the strangers who came with Kailiokalauokekoa's party. Aiwohikupua came
with the rest of the chiefs to wail for the strangers.

After the wailing the chiefs asked Kauakahialii, "How did your journey
go after your marriage with Kailiokalauokekoa?"

Then Kauakahialii told of his journey as follows: "Seeking hence after
the love of woman, I traversed Oahu and Maui, but found no other woman
to compare with this Kailiokalauokekoa here. I went to Hawaii, traveled
all about the island, touched first at Kohala, went on to Kona, Kau, and
came to Keaau, in Puna, and there I tarried, and there I met another
woman surpassingly beautiful, more so than this woman here
(Kailiokalauokekoa), more than all the beauties of this whole group of
islands."

During this speech Aiwohikupua seemed to see before him the lovely form
of that woman.

Then said Kauakahialii: "On the first night that she met my man she told
him at what time she would reach the place where we were staying and the
signs of her coming, for my man told her I was to be her husband and
entreated her to come down with him; but she said: 'Go back to this ward
of yours who is to be my husband and tell him this night I will come.
When rings the note of the _oo_ bird I am not in that sound, or the
_alala_, I am not in that sound; when rings the note of the _elepaio_
then am I making ready to descend; when the note of the _apapane_
sounds, then am I without the door of my house; if you hear the note of
the _iiwipolena_[19] then am I without your ward's house; seek me, you
two, and find me without; that is your ward's chance to meet me.' So my
man told me.

"When the night came that she had promised she did not come; we waited
until morning; she did not come; only the birds sang. I thought my man
had lied. Kailiokalauokekoa and her friends were spending the night at
Punahoa with friends. Thinking my man had lied, I ordered the
executioner to bind ropes about him; but he had left me for the uplands
of Paliuli to ask the woman why she had not come down that night and to
tell her he was to die.

"When he had told Laieikawai all these things the woman said to him,
'You return, and to-night I will come as I promised the night before, so
will I surely do.'

"That night, the night on which the woman was expected,
Kailiokalauokekoa's party had returned and she was recounting her
adventures, when just at the edge of the eve