"
The chief took this oath because of his strong desire to sleep longer in
order to make Laieikawai's acquaintance in his dream.
After speaking all these words, he tried once more to sleep, but he
could not get to sleep until the sun went down.
During all this time he did not tell anyone about what he saw in the
dream; the chief hid it from his usual confidant, thinking when it came
again, then he would tell his chief counsellor.
And because of the chief's longing to dream often, he commanded his
chief counsellor to chew _awa_.
So the counsellor summoned the chief's _awa_ chewers and made ready what
the chief commanded, and he brought it to him, and the chief drank with
his counsellor and drunkenness possessed him. Then close above the chief
rested the beloved image of Laieikawai as if they were already lovers.
Then he raised his voice in song, as follows:[22]
"Rising fondly before me,
The recollection of the lehua blossom of Puna,
Brought hither on the tip of the wind,
By the light keen wind of the fiery pit.
Wakeful--sleepless with heart longing,
With desire--O!"
Said the counsellor, to the chief, after he had ended his singing, "This
is strange! You have had no woman since we two have been living here,
yet in your song you chanted as if you had a woman here.
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