lehua blossom of Puna,
Brought hither on the tip of the wind,
By the light keen wind of the fiery pit.
Wakeful--sleepless with heart longing,
With desire--O!"

Said the counsellor, to the chief, after he had ended his singing, "This
is strange! You have had no woman since we two have been living here,
yet in your song you chanted as if you had a woman here."

Said the chief, "Cut short your talk, for I am cut off by the drink."
Then the chief fell into a deep sleep and that ended it, for so heavy
was the chief's sleep that he saw nothing of what he had desired.

A night and a day the chief slept while the effects of the _awa_ lasted.
Said the chief to his counsellor, "No good at all has come from this
_awa_ drinking of ours."

The counsellor answered, "What is the good of _awa_ drinking? I thought
the good of drinking was that admirable scaley look of the skin?"[23]

Said the chief, "Not so, but to see Laieikawai, that is the good of
_awa_ drinking."

After this the chief kept on drinking _awa_ many days, perhaps a year,
but he gained nothing by it, so he quit it.

It was only after he quit _awa_ drinking that he told anyone how
Laieikawai had come to him in the dream and why he had drunk the _awa_,
and also why he had laid the command upon them not to talk while he
slept.

After talking over all these things, then the chief fully decided to go
to Hawaii to see Laieikawai. At this time they began to talk about
getting Laieikawai for a wife.

At the close of the rough season and the coming of good weather for
sailing, the counsellor ordered the chief's sailing masters to make the
double canoe ready to sail for Hawaii that very night; and at the same
time he appointed the best paddlers out of the chief's personal
attendants.

Before the going down of the sun the steersmen and soothsayers were
ordered to observe the look of the clouds and the ocean to see whether
the chief could go or not on his journey, according to the signs. And
the steersmen as well as soothsayers saw plainly that he might go on his
journey.

And in the early morning at the rising of the canoe-steering star the
chief went on board with his counsellor and his sixteen paddlers and two
steersmen, twenty of them altogether in the double canoe, and set sail.

As they sailed, they came first to Nanakuli at Waianae. In the early
morning they left this place and went first to Mokapu and stayed there
ten days, for they were delayed