When the chief’s command was carried out, the chief took two favorites, a suitable retinue of chiefs, and all the embalmed bodies of his ancestors.

In the month called “the first twin,” when the sea was calm, they left Kauai and came to Hawaii.  Many days passed on the voyage.

As they sailed, they arrived in the early morning at Makahanaloa in Hilo.  Then said the man who had seen Laieikawai before to the chief, “See that rainbow arching over the uplands; that is Paliuli, where I found her.”  Now the rain was sweeping Hilo at the time when they came to Makahanaloa.

At the man’s words, the chief answered, “I will wait before believing that a sign for Laieikawai; for the rainbow is common in rainy weather; so, my proposal is, let us anchor the canoes and wait until the rain has cleared, then if the rainbow remains when there is no rain, it must be a sign for Laieikawai.”  The chief’s proposal was the same as Aiwohikupua’s.

So they remained there as the chief desired.  In ten days and two it cleared over Hilo, and the country was plainly visible.

In the early morning of the twelfth day the chief went out of the house, and lo! the rainbow persisted as before; a little later in the day the rainbow was at the seacoast of Keaau; Laieikawai had gone to the coast (as in the narrative before of Aiwohikupua’s story).

That day there was no longer any doubt of the sign, and they sailed and came to Keaau.  When they arrived, Laieikawai had gone up to Paliuli.

When they arrived the people crowded to see Kekalukaluokewa and exclaimed, “Kauai for handsome men!”

On the day when Kekalukaluokewa sailed and came to Keaau, Waka foresaw this Kekalukaluokewa.

Said Waka to her grandchild, “Do not go again to the coast, for Kekalukaluokewa has come to Keaau to get you for his wife.  Kauakahialii is dead, and has charged his favorite to take you to wife; therefore this is your husband.  If you accept this man you will rule the island, surely preserve these bones.  Therefore wait up here four days, then go down, and if you like him, then return and tell me your pleasure.”

So Laieikawai waited four days as her grandmother commanded.

In the early morning of the fourth day of retirement, she arose and went down with her hunchbacked attendant to Keaau.

When she arrived close to the village, lo!  Kekalukaluokewa was already out surf riding; three youths rose in the surf, the chief and his favorites.

As Laieikawai and her companion spied out for Kekalukaluokewa, they did not know which man the grandmother wanted.

Said Laieikawai to her nurse, “How are we to know the man whom my grandmother said was here?”

Her nurse said, “Better wait until they are through surfing, and the one who comes back without a board, he is the chief.”

So they sat and waited.

Then, the surf riding ended and the surfers came back to shore.