"
Then the seer stood before the chiefs and all the assembly and cried in
a loud voice:
"O chiefs, it is a wise and good thing for the chief to take whichever
one of these virgins pleases him, but not one of these can fill the loss
of Poliahu and Hinaikamalama.
"If any one of these virgins here could compare in beauty with the left
leg of my daughters, then she would be worth it. These are pretty
enough, but not like my daughters."
Said Aiwohikupua in an angry voice, "When did we ever know that you had
daughters!"
And those who had brought their daughters before the chief looked upon
the seer as an enemy.
And to the chief's angry words the seer replied, "Did I not seek
diligently and alone for a ruler over all these islands? And this lord
of the land, she is my daughter, and my other daughters, they are my
lord's sisters.
"Should my daughter come hither and stand upon the sea, the ocean would
be in tumult; if on land, the wind would blow, the sun be darkened, the
rain fall, the thunder crash, the lightning flash, the mountain tremble,
the land would be flooded, the ocean reddened, at the coming of my
daughter and lord.
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