asked, "What are the names of each of you?"

Then she told them all.

Then Laieikawai understood that these were the persons who came that
first night.

Said Laieikawai, "Your sisters and your brother I know well, if it was
really you who came to me that night; but you I did not hear."

"Yes; we were the ones," said Kahalaomapuana.

Said Laieikawai, "If you were the ones who came that night, who guided
you here? For the place is unfrequented, not a single person comes
here."

The girl said, "We had a native of the place to guide us, the same man
who spoke to you in behalf of Kauakahialii." Then it was clear he was a
fellow countryman of theirs.

The end of all this talk was that Laieikawai bade her grandmother to
prepare a house for the sisters of Aiwohikupua.

Then, through the supernatural power of her grandmother, Waka, the
matter was quickly dispatched, the house was made ready.

When the house was prepared Laieikawai gave orders to Kahalaomapuana:
"You return, and to-night come here with all your sisters; when I have
seen them then you shall play to us on your merry instrument."

When Kahalaomapuana rejoined her sisters they asked what she had
done--what kind of interview she had had with the princess.

Answered the girl, "When I reached the door of the palace a hunchback
opened the door to receive me, and when I saw the princess resting on
the wings of birds, at the sight I trembled with fear and fell down to
the earth. For this reason when I was taken in to talk with the princess
I did just what she wished, and she asked about us and I told her
everything. The result is, fortune is ours; she has commanded us all to
go to her to-night."

When they heard this the sisters were joyful.

At the time the princess had directed they left the hollow tree where
they had lived as fugitives.

They went and stood at the door of the chief-house. Laieikawai's
attendant opened the door, and they saw just what their sister had
described to them.

But when they actually saw Laieikawai, then they were filled with dread,
and all except Kahalaomapuana ran trembling with fear and fell to the
ground.

And at the princess's command the strangers were brought into the
presence of the princess, and the princess was pleased with them.

And at this interview with the princess she promised them her
protection, as follows:

"I have heard from your younger sister that you are all of the same
parentage and the same blood