tion, Waka sailed to Oahu, where the canoes
landed at Honouliuli and Waka saw the rainbow arching up at Wahiawa.
She took a little pig to sacrifice before Kapukaihaoa, the priest who
took care of Laielohelohe, and went up thither.
Waka went up and reached Kukaniloko; she draw near the place where
Laielohelohe was hidden, held the pig out to the priest and prayed, and
came to the amen, then she let the pig go.
The priest asked, "Why do you bring me the pig? What can I do for you?"
Said Waka, "My foster child has sinned, she is not a good girl; I wished
to have the chief of Kauai for her husband, but she would not listen to
me, she became Halaaniani's; therefore, I come to take your foster child
to be the wife of Kekalukaluokewa, the chief of Kauai. We two shall be
provided for, he will preserve our bones in the days of our old age
until we die, and when that chief is ours my foster child will be
supplanted, and she will realize how she has sinned."
Said Kapukaihaoa, "The pig is well, therefore I give you my foster child
to care for, and if you succeed well, and I hear of your prosperity,
then I will come to seek you."
Then Waka entered with Kapukaihaoa the taboo place where Laielohelohe
was hidden; Waka waited and the priest went still farther into the place
and brought her to Waka, then Waka knelt before Laielohelohe and did her
reverence.
On the day when Laielohelohe went on board the canoe, then the priest
took his foster child's umbilical cord[66] and wore it about his neck.
But he did not sorrow for Laielohelohe, thinking how good fortune had
come to her.
From the time Laielohelohe was taken on board, not one of the paddlers
had the least glimpse of her until they came to Hawaii.
Kekalukaluokewa waited during the time appointed.
The next day, in the early morning, when the chief awoke from sleep, he
saw the sign which Waka had promised, for there was the colored cloud on
the ocean.
Kekalukaluokewa prepared for Laielohelohe's arrival, expecting to see
her first at that time. Not so!
In the afternoon, when the double canoes came in sight, all the people
crowded to the landing place to see the chief, thinking she would come
ashore and meet her husband.
When the canoe approached the shore, then fog and mist covered the land
from Paliuli to the sea.
Then Laielohelohe and Waka were borne under cover of the mist on the
birds to Paliuli, and Laielohelohe was placed in the house prepared for
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