As the chief listened to the prophet's prayer, Aiwohikupua recognized
his own prophet, and his heart yearned with love toward him; for he had
been gone a long while; he could not tell how long it was since he had
seen him.

As soon as the prayer was ended, Aiwohikupua commanded his counsellor to
"present the seer's gifts to the gods."

Instantly the seer ran and clasped the chief's feet and climbed upward
to his neck and wept, and Aiwohikupua hugged his servant's shoulders and
wailed out his virtues.

After the wailing the chief asked his servant: "Why are you living here,
and how long have you been gone?"

The servant told him all that we have read about in former chapters.
When the seer had told the business on which he had come and his reason
for it, that was enough. Then it was the seer's turn to question
Aiwohikupua, but the chief told only half the story, saying that he was
on a sight-seeing tour.

The chief stayed with the seer that night until at daybreak they made
ready the canoe and sailed.

They left Laupahoehoe and got off Makahanaloa when one of the men, the
one who is called the counsellor, saw the rainbow arching over Paliuli.

He said to the chief: "Look! Where are you! See that rainbow arch?
Laieikawai is there, the one whom you want to find and there is where I
found her."

Said Aiwohikupua: "I do not think Laieikawai is there; that is not her
rainbow, for rainbows are common to all rainy places. But let us wait
until it is pleasant and see whether the rainbow is there then; then we
shall know it is her sign."

At the chief's proposal they anchored their canoes in the sea, and
Aiwohikupua went up with his counsellor to Kukululaumania to the houses
of the natives of the place and stayed there waiting for pleasant
weather. After four days it cleared over Hilo; the whole country was
plainly visible, and Panaewa lay bare.

On this fourth day in the early morning Aiwohikupua awoke and went out
of the house, lo! the rainbow arching where they had seen it before;
long the chief waited until the sun came, then he went in and aroused
his counsellor and said to him: "Here! perhaps you were right; I myself
rose early while it was still dark, and went outside and actually saw
the rainbow arching in the place you had pointed out to me, and I waited
until sunrise--still the rainbow! And I came in to awaken you."

The man said: "That is what I told you; if we had gone we should have
been staying up