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 prophet fared in prison.

When the executioner came to the outside of the prison, he called with a loud voice: 

“O Hulumaniani!  O Hulumaniani!  Prophet of God!  How are you?  Are you dead?” Three times the executioner called, but heard not a sound from within.

The executioner returned to the chief and said, “The prophet is dead.”

Then the chief commanded the head man of the temple to make ready for the day of sacrifice and flay the prophet on the place of sacrifice before the altar.

Now the seer heard this command from some distance away, and in the night he took a banana plant covered with tapa like a human figure and put it inside the place where he had been imprisoned, and went back and joined his daughters and told them all about his troubles.

And near the day of sacrifice at the temple, the seer took Laieikawai and her companions on board of the double canoe.

In the very early morning of the day of sacrifice at the temple the man was to be brought for sacrifice, and when the head men of the temple entered the prison, lo! the body was tightly wrapped up, and it was brought and laid within the temple.

And close to the hour when the man was to be laid upon the altar all the people assembled and the chief with them; and the chief went up on the high place, the banana plant was brought and laid directly under the altar.

Said the chief to his head men, “Unwrap the tapa from the body and place it upon the altar prepared for it.”