O Island, O great Island!
Why art thou
Sulkily biting, biting below?
Beneath the earth
The power is felt,
The foam is seen:
Come,
O thou loved grandchild
Of Kanaloa.”
On and on the canoe went, and heavier and heavier grew what was behind them. At last one of the brothers looked back. At what he saw he screamed out in affright. For there, rising behind them, a whole land was rising up, with mountains upon it. The brother dropped his paddle when he saw what had been fished up; as he dropped his paddle the line that was fastened to the jaws of old Ka-uni ho-kahi broke.