“This is my turn; your turn now;
Now we pause; the blacks cannot win;
The whites have won:
Nothing can break the boy from Ku-ai-he-lani.”
The servants knew then that he was from Ku-ai-he-lani, the Country that Supports the Heavens. They said to him, “We were sent to kill you, but we are going back to tell the Queen that in no place could we find a creature of flesh and blood.”
They returned, and they told the Queen that neither on the uplands nor on the sea-shore, neither on the tops of the trees nor on the tops of the cliffs, were they able to find a creature of flesh and blood. [[54]]While they were speaking the Queen’s dog came out and barked again. Her four bird-brothers had rested, and the Queen sent them to search for the creature of flesh and blood that the dog had barked at.
Then the Magic in his calabash spoke again to Au-ke-le. “Four birds are coming towards you. You must greet them and you must call them by their names. They will be so abashed at their names being known to a stranger that they will not know what to do.”
As the four birds came towards him Au-ke-le called aloud: “This is Ka-ne-mo-e, and I give greetings to him. This is Ka-ne-a-pua, and I give greetings to him. This is Le-a-pua, and I give greetings to him. And this is Ka-hau-mana.” The four bird-brothers were amazed to hear their names spoken by a stranger, and they said to each other, “What can we do with this man who knows our names, even?” And another said, “He can take our lives from us.” And they spoke to each other again and said, “We have one thing worthy to give to this man: let us give him our sister, the Queen.”
So the four brothers came to Au-ke-le, and they offered him the Queen to be his wife. Au-ke-le was pleased; he told them that he would go to the Queen’s house.
The four bird-brothers went back to tell the Queen about the man who was coming to her and to [[55]]whom they had promised her. The Queen said, “If he is such that he can overcome the dangers that are before him, I will marry him, and he will be the ruler with me of the land of Ka-la-ke’e-nui-a-Kane.”