A house was built for Kahalaopuna at Kahaiamano on the road to
Waiakekua, where she lived with a few attendants. The house was
surrounded by a fence of auki (_dracæna_), and a _puloulou_ (sign of
kapu) was placed on each side of the gate, indicative of forbidden
ground. The puloulou were short, stout poles, each surmounted
by a ball of white kapa cloth, and indicated that the person or
persons inhabiting the premises so defined were of the highest rank,
and sacred.

Kahalaopuna was very beautiful from her earliest childhood. Her cheeks
were so red and her face so bright that a glow emanated therefrom
which shone through the thatch of her house when she was in; a rosy
light seemed to envelop the house, and bright rays seemed to play over
it constantly. When she went to bathe in the spring below her house,
the rays of light surrounded her like a halo. The natives maintain
that this bright light is still occasionally seen at Kahaiamano,
indicating that the spirit of Kahalaopuna is revisiting her old home.

She was betrothed in childhood to Kauhi, the young chief of Kailua, in
Koolau, whose parents were so sensible of the honor of the contemplated
union of their son with the Princess of Manoa, who was deemed of a
semi-supernatural descent, that they always sent the poi of Kailua and
the fish of Kawainui for the girl's table. She was thus, as it were,
brought up entirely on the food of her prospective husband.

When she was grown to young womanhood, she was so exquisitely beautiful
that the people of the valley would make visits to the outer puloulou
at the sacred precinct of Luaalea, the land adjoining Kahaiamano, just
to get a glimpse of the beauty as she went to and from the spring. In
this way the fame of her surpassing loveliness was spread all over