Do not be afraid of the great birds that
stand on either side of the gourd, they are not real birds, only wooden
birds; they are plaited with straw and inwrought with feathers. And when
you come to where the gourd is standing take off the cover, then put
your head into the mouth of the gourd and call out the name of the
gourd, 'Laukapalili, Trembling Leaf, give me wisdom.' Then you shall see
your sister and all that is happening below. Only when you call do not
call in a loud voice; it might resound; your mother-in-law, Laukieleula,
might hear, the one who guards the gourd of wisdom."
Laukieleula was wont to watch the gourd of wisdom, at night, and by day
she slept.
Very early next morning, at the time when the sun's warmth began to
spread over the earth, she went to spy out Laukieleula; she was just
asleep.
When she saw she was asleep Laieikawai did as Moanalihaikawaokele had
directed, and she went as he had instructed her.
When she came to the gourd, the one called "the gourd of wisdom," she
lifted the cover from the gourd and bent her head to the mouth of the
gourd, and she called the name of the gourd, then she began to see all
that was happening at a distance.
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