He slept, and his wise sister watched over him. In his sleep he again met the beautiful maiden. She heard him speak the dream-woman’s name. It was Kama. Soon afterwards Ha-le-ma-no wakened from his sleep.
“She is Kama, and of her I have heard much,” said his sister. “She is very beautiful. But no one is permitted to come into the house where she lives. And in a while, when she has reached the height of her beauty, she will be given in marriage to the King of Puna or the King of Hilo.” “Unless I can take her out of that forbidden house and away from these two Kings,” said Ha-le-ma-no, “I shall surely die.”
Then his sister promised him that she would strive to find some way of bringing him and Kama together. He ate his food because she made that promise, and he became well again. Then, that he might be able to follow her travels, she told him of the signs she would show. “If it rains here,” she said, “you will know that I have got as far as the Island of Mo-lo-kai. If the lightning flashes, you will know that I have reached the Island of Maui. If it thunders, I am at Kohala. And if you see red water flowing, I have reached Puna, where your Princess lives.”
Ha-le-ma-no’s sister started off. Soon it rained; [[96]]soon the lightning flashed; soon thunder was heard; soon red water flowed. Lae-ni-hi had come to Puna.
When she came there she began to devise ways by which she could come to the Princess in her forbidden house. She caused the wind to blow. It aroused the sea from its repose, and the surf began to roll in on the beach of Kai-mu. That was a place where the people used to go for surf-riding. When they saw the surf coming in in great rollers they began to shout. They got their surf-boards and prepared to ride in on the rolling surf.
When Kama’s brother heard the shouting he came down on the beach. He saw the people riding the surf, and he went back to ask his sister’s permission to ride the surf like the others. She came down to the beach with him. And when she saw the surf coming in in such fine rollers she too became excited, and she longed to go riding it.
She allowed the first roller to come in until it reached the shore; she allowed the second roller to come in; then the third. And when that roller reached the shore she plunged in and swam out with her board to the place where the rollers began to curve up. When she reached that place she took the first roller that came along, and, standing on her surf-board, she rode in on it. The people watching shouted in admiration for her, so beautiful was her figure as she stood upon the board that came racing in with the rolling surf. [[97]]
She rode the surf three times, and she was becoming more and more delighted with the sport, when the wind ceased to blow and the surf went down. Kama was left in shallow water. She looked down, and she saw a bright fish in the water. And her brother, who was looking towards her, saw the fish at the same time. He called out to her, “O my sister, take up and bring to me the bright fish that is in the shallow water.”
Now the fish was Lae-ni-hi, who had transformed herself. Kama put her hands under her and took her up. She put the fish into a calabash of water and gave her to her brother for a plaything. He carried the fish with him, and in that way Lae-ni-hi came into the house that was forbidden to all except the Princess and her brother.
In the middle of the night she changed back into a woman, and she stood above where the Princess lay. Kama wakened up and saw the strange woman near her. “Where are you from?” the Princess asked. “I am from near here.” “There is no woman who is like you anywhere near. Besides, no one belonging to this place would come into this house, for all know that it is forbidden.” “I have come from beyond the sea.” “Yes, now you are telling me the truth.”