That morning they left Makahanaloa and sailed out to the harbor of
Keaau.
They sailed until evening, made shore at Keaau and saw Kauakahialii's houses standing there and the people of the place out surf riding. When they arrived, the people of the place admired Aiwohikupua as much as ever.
The strangers remained at Keaau until evening, then Aiwohikupua ordered the steersmen and rowers to stay quietly until the two of them returned from their search for a wife, only they two alone.
At sunset Aiwohikupua caught up his feather cloak and gave it to the other to carry, and they ascended.
They made way with difficulty through high forest trees and thickets of tangled brush, until, at a place close to Paliuli, they heard the crow of a cock. The man said to his chief: "We are almost out."
They went on climbing, and heard a second time the cock crow (the cock's second crow this). They went on climbing until a great light shone.
The man said to his chief, "Here! we are out; there is Laieikawai's grandmother calling together the chickens as usual."[39]
Asked Aiwohikupua, "Where is the princess's house?"
Said the man, "When we get well out of the garden patch here, then we can see the house clearly."
When Aiwohikupua saw that they were approaching Laieikawai's house, he asked for the feather cloak to hold in his hand when they met the princess of Paliuli.