At the chief’s proposal they anchored their canoes in the sea, and Aiwohikupua went up with his counsellor to Kukululaumania to the houses of the natives of the place and stayed there waiting for pleasant weather.  After four days it cleared over Hilo; the whole country was plainly visible, and Panaewa lay bare.

On this fourth day in the early morning Aiwohikupua awoke and went out of the house, lo! the rainbow arching where they had seen it before; long the chief waited until the sun came, then he went in and aroused his counsellor and said to him:  “Here! perhaps you were right; I myself rose early while it was still dark, and went outside and actually saw the rainbow arching in the place you had pointed out to me, and I waited until sunrise—­still the rainbow!  And I came in to awaken you.”

The man said:  “That is what I told you; if we had gone we should have been staying up there in Paliuli all these days where she is.”

That morning they left Makahanaloa and sailed out to the harbor of Keaau.

They sailed until evening, made shore at Keaau and saw Kauakahialii’s houses standing there and the people of the place out surf riding.  When they arrived, the people of the place admired Aiwohikupua as much as ever.

The strangers remained at Keaau until evening, then Aiwohikupua ordered the steersmen and rowers to stay quietly until the two of them returned from their search for a wife, only they two alone.

At sunset Aiwohikupua caught up his feather cloak and gave it to the other to carry, and they ascended.

They made way with difficulty through high forest trees and thickets of tangled brush, until, at a place close to Paliuli, they heard the crow of a cock.  The man said to his chief:  “We are almost out.”

They went on climbing, and heard a second time the cock crow (the cock’s second crow this).  They went on climbing until a great light shone.

The man said to his chief, “Here! we are out; there is Laieikawai’s grandmother calling together the chickens as usual."[39]

Asked Aiwohikupua, “Where is the princess’s house?”

Said the man, “When we get well out of the garden patch here, then we can see the house clearly.”

When Aiwohikupua saw that they were approaching Laieikawai’s house, he asked for the feather cloak to hold in his hand when they met the princess of Paliuli.

The garden patch passed, they beheld Laieikawai’s house covered with the yellow feathers of the oo bird, as the seer had seen in his vision from the god on Kauwiki.

When Aiwohikupua saw the house of the princess of Paliuli, he felt strangely perplexed and abashed, and for the first time he felt doubtful of his success.

And by reason of this doubt within him he said to his companion, “Where are you?  We have come boldly after my wife.  I supposed her just an ordinary woman.  Not so!  The princess’s house has no equal for workmanship; therefore, let us return without making ourselves known.”