She waited that
day until night; it was no better; then she thought her husband was
dead, and she began to pour out her grief.
CHAPTER XXIII
Very heavy hearted was Laieikawai at her husband's death, so she mourned
ten days and two (twelve days) for love of him.
While Laieikawai mourned, her counsellors wondered, for Laieikawai had
given them her charge before going to Keaau.
"Wait for me ten days, and should I not return," she had bidden them as
told in Chapter XXII; so clearly she was in trouble.
And the time having passed which Laieikawai charged her companions to
wait, Aiwohikupua's sisters awoke early in the morning of the twelfth
day and went to look after their comrade.
They went to Keaau, and as they approached and Laieikawai spied her
counsellors she poured out her grief with wailing.
Now her counsellors marveled at her wailing and remembered her saying
"some evil has befallen"; at her wailing and at her gestures of
distress, for Laieikawai was kneeling on the ground with one hand
clapped across her back and the other at her forehead, and she wailed
aloud as follows:
O you who come to me--alas!
Here I am,
My heart is trembling,
There is a rushing at my heart for love.
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