They strongly urged the chief, therefore, to bind him within the house of detention, the prison house, where the chief's enemies were wont to be imprisoned.
Through the persistence of his enemies, it was decided to make the seer fast within that place and let him stay there until he died.
On the day of his imprisonment, that night at dawn, he prayed to his god. And at early daybreak the door of the house was opened for him and he went out without being seen.
In the morning the chief sent the executioner to go and see how the prophet fared in prison.
When the executioner came to the outside of the prison, he called with a loud voice:
"O Hulumaniani! O Hulumaniani! Prophet of God! How are you? Are you dead?" Three times the executioner called, but heard not a sound from within.
The executioner returned to the chief and said, "The prophet is dead."
Then the chief commanded the head man of the temple to make ready for the day of sacrifice and flay the prophet on the place of sacrifice before the altar.
Now the seer heard this command from some distance away, and in the night he took a banana plant covered with tapa like a human figure and put it inside the place where he had been imprisoned, and went back and joined his daughters and told them all about his troubles.
And near the day of sacrifice at the temple, the seer took Laieikawai and her companions on board of the double canoe.