“That is the answer, but who has told you?” cried the King.
He was not able to have Paka killed, and he had to give him whatever Paka chose to ask for. And [[91]]Paka asked for the Princess Mako-lea who had been stolen away from him. He asked for her, and he was brought into another house. And there he beheld the Princess. And when he looked on her he knew that when his foster-father had said that she was faultless as the full moon he had spoken the truth. He took her back to Kona, to the house of her father and her mother, and in Kona they were wed, Paka and Mako-kea. And his two foster-fathers, Ki-i the Goer and Ki-i the Stayer, married Mako-lea’s two attendants; and thereafter the two elders lived so well that they almost came to forget Pali-uli, the easeful land. [[93]]
The Story of Ha-le-ma-no and the Princess Kama.
In Puna lived the Princess Kama, and she was so beautiful that two Kings strove to win her—the King of Puna and the King of Hilo. They sent presents to her mother and to her father and to herself. But Kama never saw either of those Kings. She was sent to live in a house that no one was permitted to enter except herself and her brother. “In a while Kama will come to the height of her beauty,” her parents said, “and then we will give her to be Queen to one of these Kings. But until that time comes no one must speak to her.” And so, in a house that was forbidden to every one else, Kama lived with only her young brother for her companion.
Far away, on the Island of Oahu, there lived a youth whose name was Ha-le-ma-no. Every night he had a dream in which he met a beautiful maiden who talked to him and whose name in his dream he knew. But when he wakened up he could not remember what name she had told him to call her by, nor what words they had said to each other. He remembered only her beautiful form and face, the dress and the wreaths she wore, and the scent that was in her dress. The youth became so that he could think of nothing else except this maiden, and he wasted away because of this thought that put every other [[94]]thought out of his mind. Then it came about that he would eat no food, and at last his fasting and his wasting thought brought him near his death.
But Ha-le-ma-no had a sister who had magical powers. Her name was Lae-ni-hi. She was travelling with her other sisters when she saw Ha-le-ma-no’s image in the sky, and she knew by that sign that her brother was near his death. Her sisters wept for Ha-le-ma-no when they saw that sign in the sky, but Lae-ni-hi uttered a magic spell, and through that spell Ha-le-ma-no was brought back to life.
Then she went and she visited her brother, and when she was with him she asked what it was that had brought him so near his death. “It is because of a maiden whom I dream of continually,” he told her, “that I was near my death, and that I may come near my death again.”
His sister asked him what the maiden was like, and he told her. “She is tall and very beautiful, and she seems to be a Princess. She has a wreath of hala on her head and a lei of lehua-blossoms around her neck. Her dress is of scented tapa, and it is dyed red.” “It is in Puna,” said his sister, “that the women wear the lehua lei, and have scented tapa for their dresses.”
Then she asked, “How do your meetings come about?” “When I fall asleep,” said Ha-le-ma-no, “the maiden comes to me. Then she tells me her [[95]]name. But when I waken up I do not know the name I called her by.”