Eleio entered the puoa, climbed on to the platform, and saw the dead
body of the girl. She was in every way as beautiful as the spirit
had appeared to him, and apparently decomposition had not yet set
in. He left the puoa and hurried to the house pointed out by the
spirit as that of her friends, and saw a woman wailing, whom, from
the resemblance, he at once knew to be the mother of the girl; so
he saluted her with an aloha. He then said: "I am a stranger here,
but I had a travelling companion who guided me to yonder puoa and
then disappeared." At these strange words the woman stopped wailing
and called to her husband, to whom she repeated what the stranger
had said. The latter then asked: "Does this house belong to you?"

Husband and wife, wondering, answered at once: "It does."

"Then," said Eleio, "my message is to you. My travelling companion
has a hog a fathom in length in your care; also a pile of fine kapas
of Paiula and others of fine quality; also a pile of mats and an
unfinished feather cloak, now a fathom and a half in length, which
you are to finish, the materials being in the house. All these things
she has given to me, and sent me to you for them." Then he began to
describe the young woman. Both parents recognized the truthfulness of
the description, and willingly agreed to give up the things which their
beloved daughter must have herself given away. But when they spoke of
killing the hog and making an _ahaaina_ (feast) for him, whom they had
immediately resolved to adopt as a son, he said: "Wait a little and
let me ask: Are all these people I see around this place your friends?"

They both answered: "They are our relatives--uncles, aunts, and
cousins to the spirit, who seems to have adopted you either as husband
or brother."

"Will they do your bidding in everything?" he asked.

They answered that they could be relied upon. He directed them to
build a large _lanai_, or arbor, to be entirely covered with ferns,
ginger, maile, and ieie--the sweet and odorous foliage greens of
the islands. An altar was to be erected at one end of the lanai and
appropriately decorated. The order was willingly carried out, men,
women, and children working with a will, so that the whole structure
was finished in a couple of hours.

Eleio now directed the hog to be cooked. He also ordered cooked
red and white fish, red, white, and black cocks, and bananas of the
lele and maoli varieties, to be placed on the altar. He o