Then the man told why he shouted and why his face was glad in the presence of the chief: "In the early morning yesterday, while I was working over the canoe, intending to sail to Lanai, a certain woman came with her daughter, but I could not see plainly the daughter's face. But while we were talking the girl unveiled her face. Behold! I saw a girl of incomparable beauty who rivaled all the daughters of the chiefs of Molokai."
When the chief heard these words he said, "If she is as good looking as my daughter, then she is beautiful indeed."
At this saying of the chief, the man begged that the chiefess be shown to him, and Kaulaailehua, the daughter of the chief, was brought thither. Said the man, "Your daughter must be in four points more beautiful than she is to compare with that other."
Replied the chief, "She must be beautiful indeed that you scorn our beauty here, who is the handsomest girl in Molokai."
Then the man said fearlessly to the chief, "Of my judgment of beauty I can speak with confidence."[12]
As the man was talking with the chief, the seer remained listening to the conversation; it just came to him that this was the one whom he was seeking.
So the seer moved slowly toward him, got near, and seized the man by the arm, and drew him quietly after him.
When they were alone, the seer asked the man directly, "Did you know that girl before about whom you were telling the chief?"
The man denied it and said, "No; I had never seen her before; this was the very first time; she was a stranger to me."
So the seer thought that this must be the person he was seeking, and he questioned the man closely where they were living, and the man told him exactly.