y the same way that she had climbed up,
and within one month found Kihanuilulumoku and told all briefly, "We are
all right; we have prospered."

She entered into Kihanuilulumoku and swam over the ocean; as many days
as they were in going, so many were they in returning.

They came to Olaa. Laieikawai and her companions were gone; the lizard
smelled all about Hawaii; nothing. They went to Maui; the lizard smelled
about; not a trace.

He sniffed about Kahoolawe, Lanai, Molokai. Just the same. They came to
Kauai; the lizard sniffed about the coast, found nothing; sniffed
inland; there they were, living at Honopuwaiakua, and Kihanuilulumoku
threw forth Kahalaomapuana.

The princess and her sisters saw her and rejoiced, but a stranger to the
seer was this younger sister, and he was terrified at sight of the
lizard; but because he was a prophet, he stilled his fear.

Eleven months, ten days, and four days over it was since Kahalaomapuana
left Laieikawai and her companions until their return from
The-shining-heavens.

CHAPTER XXIX

When Kahalaomapuana returned from Kealohilani, from her journey in
search of a chief, she related the story of her trip, of its windings
and twistings, and all the things she had seen while she was away.

When she recited the charge given her by Kaonohiokala, Laieikawai said
to her companions, "O comrades, as Kahalaomapuana tells me the message
of your brother and my husband, a strange foreboding weighs upon me, and
I am amazed; I supposed him to be a man, a mighty god that! When I think
of seeing him, however I may desire it, I am ready to die with fear
before he has even come to us."

Her companions answered, "He is no god; he is a man like us, yet in his
nature and appearance godlike. He was the first-born of us; he was
greatly beloved by our parents; to him was given superhuman powers which
we have not, except Kahalaomapuana; only they two were given this power;
his taboo rank still remains; therefore, do not fear; when he comes, you
will see he is only a man like us."

Now, before Kahalaomapuana's return from Kealohilani, the seer foresaw
what was to take place, one month before her return. Then the seer
prophesied, in these words: "A blessing descends upon us from the
heavens when the nights of full moon come.

"When we hear the thunder peal in dry weather and in wet, then we shall
see over the earth rain and lightning, billows swell on the ocean,
freshets on the land, la