girls of well-to-do families, at the command of
Aiwohikupua to bring the virgins before the chief, the one who pleased
the chief to become the wife of Aiwohikupua.

When the seer came within the crowd, lo! the maidens were assembled in
one place before the chief.

The seer asked some one in the crowd, "What is this assembly for and
why are all these maidens standing in a circle before the chief?"

He was told, "All the virgins have been summoned by the chief's command,
and the two who please Aiwohikupua, these he will take for his wives in
place of Poliahu and Hinaikamalama, and their parents are to be clothed
in feather cloaks."

Then the seer stood before the chiefs and all the assembly and cried in
a loud voice:

"O chiefs, it is a wise and good thing for the chief to take whichever
one of these virgins pleases him, but not one of these can fill the loss
of Poliahu and Hinaikamalama.

"If any one of these virgins here could compare in beauty with the left
leg of my daughters, then she would be worth it. These are pretty
enough, but not like my daughters."

Said Aiwohikupua in an angry voice, "When did we ever know that you had
daughters!"

And those who had brought their daughters before the chief looked upon
the seer as an enemy.

And to the chief's angry words the seer replied, "Did I not seek
diligently and alone for a ruler over all these islands? And this lord
of the land, she is my daughter, and my other daughters, they are my
lord's sisters.

"Should my daughter come hither and stand upon the sea, the ocean would
be in tumult; if on land, the wind would blow, the sun be darkened, the
rain fall, the thunder crash, the lightning flash, the mountain tremble,
the land would be flooded, the ocean reddened, at the coming of my
daughter and lord."

And the seer's words spread, fear through the assembly. But those whose
virgin daughters were present were not pleased.

They strongly urged the chief, therefore, to bind him within the house
of detention, the prison house, where the chief's enemies were wont to
be imprisoned.

Through the persistence of his enemies, it was decided to make the seer
fast within that place and let him stay there until he died.

On the day of his imprisonment, that night at dawn, he prayed to his
god. And at early daybreak the door of the house was opened for him and
he went out without being seen.

In the morning the chief sent the executioner to go and see how the
proph