After Kahalaomapuana had laid her commands upon her sisters she made
preparation for the journey.
At the rising of the sun Kahalaomapuana entered inside Kihanuilulumoku
and swam through the ocean and came to The Shining Heavens; in four
months and ten days they reached Kealohilani.
When they arrived they did not see Mokukelekahiki, the guard who watches
over Kaonohiokala's wealth, his chief counsellor in The Shining Heavens;
twice ten days they waited for Mokukelekahiki to return from his garden
patch.
Mokukelekahiki returned while the lizard was asleep inside the house;
the head alone filled that great house of Mokukelekahiki's, the body and
tail of the lizard were still in the sea.
A terrible sight to Mokukelekahiki to see that lizard; he flew away up
to Nuumealani, the Raised Place in the Heavens; there was
Kaeloikamalama, the magician who closes the door of the taboo house on
the borders of Tahiti, where Kaonohiokala was hidden.
Mokukelekahiki told Kaeloikamalama how he had seen the lizard. Then
Kaeloikamalama flew down with Mokukelekahiki from the heights of
Nuumealani, the land in the air.
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