The people wondered at his action and asked, “Are you going away that you make these things ready?”

The seer said, “I am making ready for my chief, Aiwohikupua; he is the one I told you about last evening; for he comes hither over the ocean, his sign is on the ocean, and his mist covers it.”

As Aiwohikupua’s party drew near to the harbor of Laupahoehoe, 20 peals of thunder sounded, the people of Hilo crowded together, and as soon as it was quiet all saw the double canoe coming to land carrying above it the taboo sign[37] of a chief.  Then the seer’s prediction was fulfilled.

When the canoe came to land the seer was standing at the landing; he advanced from Kaiwilahilahi, threw the pig before the chief, and prayed in the name of the gods of Aiwohikupua, and this was his prayer: 

“O Heavens, Lightning, and Rain; O Air, Thunder, and Earthquake; O gods of my chief, my beloved, my sacred taboo chief, who will bury these bones!  Here is a pig, a black cock, awa, a priest, a sacrifice, an offering to the chief from your servant here; look upon your servant, Hulumaniani; bring to him life, a great life, a long life, to live forever, until the staff rings as he walks, until he is dragged upon a mat, until the eyes are dim.[38] Amen, it is finished, flown away.”

As the chief listened to the prophet’s prayer, Aiwohikupua recognized his own prophet, and his heart yearned with love toward him; for he had been gone a long while; he could not tell how long it was since he had seen him.

As soon as the prayer was ended, Aiwohikupua commanded his counsellor to “present the seer’s gifts to the gods.”

Instantly the seer ran and clasped the chief’s feet and climbed upward to his neck and wept, and Aiwohikupua hugged his servant’s shoulders and wailed out his virtues.

After the wailing the chief asked his servant:  “Why are you living here, and how long have you been gone?”

The servant told him all that we have read about in former chapters.  When the seer had told the business on which he had come and his reason for it, that was enough.  Then it was the seer’s turn to question Aiwohikupua, but the chief told only half the story, saying that he was on a sight-seeing tour.

The chief stayed with the seer that night until at daybreak they made ready the canoe and sailed.

They left Laupahoehoe and got off Makahanaloa when one of the men, the one who is called the counsellor, saw the rainbow arching over Paliuli.

He said to the chief:  “Look!  Where are you!  See that rainbow arch?  Laieikawai is there, the one whom you want to find and there is where I found her.”

Said Aiwohikupua:  “I do not think Laieikawai is there; that is not her rainbow, for rainbows are common to all rainy places.  But let us wait until it is pleasant and see whether the rainbow is there then; then we shall know it is her sign.”