Afterwards Malaekahana bore more daughters, but she could not save them from being killed at birth according to the chief’s vow.

When for the fifth time Malaekahana conceived a child, near the time of its birth, she went to the priest and said, “Here!  Where are you?  Look upon this womb of mine which is with child, for I can no longer endure my children’s death; the husband is overzealous to keep his vow; four children were mine, four are dead.  Therefore, look upon this womb of mine, which is with child; if you see it is to be a girl, I will kill it before it takes human shape.[4] But if you see it is to be a boy, I will not do it.”

Then the priest said to Malaekahana, “Go home; just before the child is to be born come back to me that I may know what you are carrying.”

At the time when the child was to be born, in the month of October, during the taboo season at the temple, Malaekahana remembered the priest’s command.  When the pains of childbirth were upon her, she came to the priest and said, “I come at the command of the priest, for the pains of childbirth are upon me; look and see, then, what kind of child I am carrying.”

As Malaekahana talked with the priest, he said:  “I will show you a sign; anything I ask of you, you must give it.”

Then the priest asked Malaekahana to give him one of her hands, according to the sign used by this people, whichever hand she wished to give to the priest.

Now, when the priest asked Malaekahana to give him one of her hands she presented the left, with the palm upward.  Then the priest told her the interpretation of the sign:  “You will bear another daughter, for you have given me your left hand with the palm upward.”

When the priest said this, the heart of Malaekahana was heavy, for she sorrowed over the slaying of the children by her husband; then Malaekahana besought the priest to devise something to help the mother and save the child.

Then the priest counseled Malaekahana, “Go back to the house; when the child is about to be born, then have a craving for the manini spawn,[5] and tell Kahauokapaka that he must himself go fishing, get the fish you desire with his own hand, for your husband is very fond of the young manini afloat in the membrane, and while he is out fishing he will not know about the birth; and when the child is born, then give it to me to take care of; when he comes back, the child will be in my charge, and if he asks, tell him it was an abortion, nothing more.”

At the end of this talk, Malaekahana went back to the house, and when the pains came upon her, almost at the moment of birth, then Malaekahana remembered the priest’s counsel to her.

When the pain had quieted, Malaekahana said to her husband, “Listen, Kahauokapaka! the spawn of the manini come before my eyes; go after them, therefore, while they are yet afloat in the membrane; possibly when you bring the manini spawn, I shall be eased of the child; this is the first time my labor has been hard, and that I have craved the young of the manini; go quickly, therefore, to the fishing.”