Then Lae-ni-hi asked the Princess if she had ever met a youth in her dream. The Princess would not answer when she asked this. “If you would have me [[98]]bring one to you, give me a wreath that you have worn, and a dress,” said Ha-le-ma-no’s sister. Kama gave her a wreath that was withered and one of her scented dresses.
Lae-ni-hi went back to her brother. She showed him the wreath and the dress that the Princess had worn. Upon seeing these things Ha-le-ma-no was sure that his sister had been with the dream-maiden, and he rose up to go at once to where she was.
But his sister would not let him go without her. And before she would go back to Puna she had toys and playthings made—toys and playthings that would take the fancy of Kama’s young brother. She had wooden birds made that would float on the waves; she had a toy canoe made and painted red; in it there were men in red to paddle it; she had other figures made that could stand upright; then she fixed up a colored and high-flying kite.
With the toys and playthings in their canoe, Ha-le-ma-no and Lae-ni-hi started off for Puna. And when they drew near the shore Ha-le-ma-no let the kite rise up. As it went up in the air the people on the beach saw it, and they shouted. The Princess’s brother heard the shouts, and he came out to see what was happening.
When he saw the kite he ran down to the beach. He saw a canoe with two persons in it, and one of them held the string of the kite. He called out to them, “Oh, let me have the thing that flies!” Lae-ni-hi [[99]]then said to her brother, “Let the boy have it,” and he put the string of the kite into the boy’s hand. Then the birds were put into the water, and they floated on the waves. Then the toy canoe with its men in red was let down, and it floated on the water. The boy cried out, “Oh, let me have these things,” and Lae-ni-hi gave them to him.
And then she put along the side of the canoe the standing figures that she had brought. The boy saw them, and them he wanted too. Then Lae-ni-hi said to him, “Are you a favorite with your sister?” “I am,” the boy said; “she will do anything I ask her to do.” “Call her so that she comes near us, and I will give you these figures.” The boy then called her. “Unless you come here, sister,” he said, “I cannot get these playthings.”
Kama came near. Then Ha-le-ma-no saw that she had the very height of the maiden whom he had seen in his dreams. “Are you a favorite with your sister, and would she mind if you asked her to turn her back to us?” Lae-ni-hi said. The boy asked his sister to turn her back, and then Ha-le-ma-no saw how straight her back was. After this Lae-ni-hi said, “Are you a favorite with your sister, and would she mind if you asked her to show her face to us?” After that Kama stood facing the canoe, and Ha-le-ma-no saw that this was indeed the maiden of his dream.
Then they met, Ha-le-ma-no and Kama. The Princess knew him for the youth she had seen in her [[100]]dreams. She let him take her by the hands and bring her into the canoe. When they were in the canoe Lae-ni-hi paddled it off. The people of Puna and the people of Hilo came in chase of them. But by the power that Lae-ni-hi had, the canoe was made to go so swiftly that those who followed were left far behind.
After this the two Kings said to each other: “Yes, we have sent much of what we owned to her and to her parents with the idea that one or the other of us would get her for his wife. Now she has been carried off from us. Let us make war upon those who have taken her, and punish them for having carried her off.”
And so the two Kings made war upon Ha-le-ma-no’s people. Ha-le-ma-no and Kama had to flee away. And after enduring much suffering and much poverty they came to the Island of Maui. There they lived; but instead of living in state and having plenty, they had to dig the ground and live as a farmer and a farmer’s wife.