During the days they were there the seer saw the rainbow arching over
the sea as if right at Kawaihae. The uplands of Ouli at Waimea was the
place the seer looked from.
For in former chapters it has been told how the seer came to Hilo, to
Kaiwilahilahi, and lived there some years waiting for the sign he was
seeking.
But when it did not come to the seer as he waited for the sign he was
seeking, then he waited and sought no longer for the sign he had
followed from Kauai to this place.
So he left Hilo, intending to go all the way back to Kauai, and he set
out. On his return, he did not leave the offerings which he had brought
from Kauai thither, the pig and the cock.
When he reached Waimea, at Ouli, there he saw the rainbow arching over
the sea at Kawaihae.
And the seer was so weary he was not quick to recognize the rainbow, but
he stayed there, and on the next day he did not see the sign again.
Next day the seer left the place, the very day when Laieikawai's party
left Kaiopae, and came back above Kahuwa and stopped at Moolau.
When the seer reached Puuloa from Waimea, he saw the rainbow arching
over Moolau; then the seer began to wonder, "Can that be the sign I came
to seek?"
The seer kept right on up to the summit of Palalahuakii.
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