"
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.
When they had done speaking the paddler left them and went away as he
had vowed.
As he went he came first to Kaluaaha and slept at Halawa, and here and
on the way there he proclaimed, as he had vowed, the beauty of
Laieikawai.
The next day, in the morning, he found a canoe sailing to Kalaupapa, got
on board and went first to Pelekunu and Wailau; afterwards he came to
Waikolu, where the seer was staying.
When he got to Waikolu the seer had already gone to Kalaupapa, but this
man only stayed to spread the news of Laieikawai's arrival.
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