was not to be found.

Here we must leave Aiwohikupua for a little and tell about his sisters,
then speak again about Aiwohikupua.

When Aiwohikupua's party forsook his sisters at Honolii and took
Kahalaomapuana with them, the girls mourned for love of their younger
sister, for they loved Kahalaomapuana better than their parents or their
native land.

While they were still mourning Kahalaomapuana appeared by the cliff;
then their sorrow was at an end.

They crowded about their younger sister, and she told them what had
happened to her and why she had returned, as has been told in the
chapter before.

After talking of all these things, they consulted together where they
might best live, and agreed to go back to Paliuli.

After their council they left Honolii and returned to the uplands of
Paliuli, to a place near Laieikawai's house, and lived there inside of
hollow trees.

And because they wished so much to see Laieikawai they spied out for
her from day to day, and after many days of spying they had not had the
least sight of her, for every day the door was fast closed.

So they consulted how to get sight of Laieikawai, and after seeking many
days after some way to see the princess of Paliuli they found none.

During this debate their younger sister did not speak, so one of her
older sisters said, "Kahalaomapuana, all of us have tried to devise a
way to see Laieikawai, but we have not found one; perhaps you have
something in mind. Speak."

"Yes" said, their younger sister, "let us burn a fire every night, and
let the oldest sing, then the next, and so on until the last of us, only
one of us sing each night, then I will come the last night; perhaps the
fire burning every night will annoy the princess so she will come to
find out about us, then perhaps we shall see Laieikawai."

Kahalaomapuana's words pleased them.

The next night they lighted the fire and Mailehaiwale sang that night,
as they had agreed, and the next night Mailekaluhea; so they did every
night, and the fourth night passed; but Laieikawai gave them no concern.
The princess had, in fact, heard the singing and seen the fire burning
constantly, but what was that to the princess!

On the fifth night, Kahalaomapuana's night, the last night of all, they
lighted the fire, and at midnight Kahalaomapuana made a trumpet of a
_ti_ leaf[45] and played on it.

Then for the first time Laieikawai felt pleasure in the music, but the
princess paid no atten