d Kahalaomapuana did not
pull the tall flowers, she pulled a very short one, about three feet
long hers was, and she cut off half and came back, thinking her grass
stem was the shortest.

But in comparing them, the oldest laid hers down before her brother.
Kahalaomapuana saw it and was much surprised, so she secretly broke hers
inside her clothing; but her brother saw her doing it and said,
"Kahalaomapuana, no fooling! leave your grass stem as it is."

The others laid down theirs, but Kahalaomapuana did not show hers; said
he, "The lot rests upon you."

Then she begged her brother to draw the lot again; again they drew lots,
again the lot rested upon Kahalaomapuana; Kahalaomapuana had nothing
left to say, for the lot rested upon her.

Lo! she was sorrowful at separating herself from her own chief-house
and the people of the land; darkened was the princess's heart by the
unwelcome lot that sent her back to Kealohilani.

And on the day when Kahalaomapuana was to depart for Kealohilani, the
rainbow was let down from above the earth.

Then she said to her brother, "Let the pathway of my high one wait ten
days, and let the chiefs be gathered together and all the people of the
land, that I may show them my great love before you take me away."

When Kaonohiokala saw that his sister's words were well, he granted her
wish; then the pathway was taken up again with her brother.

And on the tenth day, the pathway was let down again before the
assembly, and Kahalaomapuana mounted upon the ladder way prepared for
her and turned with heavy heart, her eyes filled with a flood of tears,
the water drops of Kulanihakoi, and said: "O chiefs and people, I am
leaving you to return to a land unknown to you; only I and my older
sisters have visited it; it was not my wish to go back to this land; but
my hand decided my leaving you according to the lot laid by my divine
brother. But I know that every one of us has a god, no one is without;
now, therefore, do you pray to your god and I will pray to my god, and
if our prayer has might, then shall we meet again hereafter. Love to you
all, love to the land, we cease and disappear."

Then she caught hold of her garment and held it up to her eyes before
the assembly to hide her feeling for the people and the land. And she
was borne by the rainbow to the land above the clouds, to Lanikuakaa,
the heavens higher up.

The great reason why Kaonohiokala wished to separate Kahalaomapuana in
Kealo