They left the place, went to Keawanui, to the place called Kaleloa, and there they met a man who was getting his canoe ready to sail for Lanai.  When they met the canoe man, Waka said:  “Will you let us get into the canoe with you, and take us to the place where you intend to go?”

Said the canoe man:  “I will take you both with me in the canoe; the only trouble is I have no mate to paddle the canoe.”

And as the man spoke this word, “a mate to paddle the canoe,” Laieikawai drew aside the veil that covered her face because of her grandmother’s wish completely to conceal her grandchild from being seen by anyone as they went on their way to Paliuli; but her grandchild thought otherwise.

When Laieikawai uncovered her face which her grandmother had concealed, the grandmother shook her head at her grandchild to forbid her showing it, lest the grandchild’s beauty become thereafter nothing but a common thing.

Now, as Laieikawai uncovered her face, the canoe man saw that Laieikawai rivaled in beauty all the daughters of the chiefs round about Molokai and Lanai.  And lo! the man was pierced through[9] with longing for the person he had seen.

Therefore, the man entreated the grandmother and said:  “Unloosen the veil from your grandchild’s face, for I see that she is more beautiful than all the daughters of the chiefs round about Molokai and Lanai.”

The grandmother said:  “I do not uncover her because she wishes to conceal herself.”

At this answer of Waka to the paddler’s entreaties, Laieikawai revealed herself fully, for she heard Waka say that she wished to conceal herself, when she had not wanted to at all.

And when the paddler saw Laieikawai clearly, desire came to him afresh.  Then the thought sprang up within him to go and spread the news around Molokai of this person whom he longed after.

Then the paddler said to Laieikawai and her companion, “Where are you! live here in the house; everything within is yours, not a single thing is withholden from you in the house; inside and outside[10] you two are masters of this place.”

When the canoe man had spoken thus, Laieikawai said, “Our host, shall you be gone long? for it looks from your charge as if you were to be away for good.”

Said the host, “O daughter, not so; I shall not forsake you; but I must look for a mate to paddle you both to Lanai.”

And at these words, Waka said to their host, “If that is the reason for your going away, leaving us in charge of everything in your house, then let me say, we can help you paddle.”

The man was displeased at these words of Waka to him.

He said to the strangers, “Let me not think of asking you to paddle the canoe; for I hold you to be persons of importance.”

Now it was not the man’s intention to look for a mate to paddle the canoe with him, but as he had already determined, so now he vowed within him to go and spread around Molokai the news about Laieikawai.