"
Then Kahauokapaka went out of the house at once and set out. While they
were gone the child was born, a girl, and she was given to Waka, and
they named her Laieikawai. As they were attending to the first child, a
second was born, also a girl, and they named her Laielohelohe.
After the girls had been carried away in the arms of Waka and
Kapukaihaoa, Kahauokapaka came back from the fishing, and asked his
wife, "How are you?"
Said the woman, "I have born an abortion and have thrown it into the
ocean."
Kahauokapaka already knew of the birth while he was on the ocean, for
there came two claps of thunder; then he thought that the wife had given
birth. At this time of Laieikawai and Laielohelohe's birth thunder first
sounded in October,[6] according to the legend.
When Waka and Kapukaihaoa had taken their foster children away, Waka
said to Kapukaihaoa, "How shall we hide our foster children from
Kahauokapaka?"
Said the priest, "You had better hide your foster child in the water
hole of Waiapuka; a cave is there which no one knows about, and it will
be my business to seek a place of protection for my foster child.
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