When Kaoleioku and Umi heard this, Kaoleioku was made very happy, and he began to speak in glowing terms to the large number of people present of the good promise of his ward Umi coming into possession of the kingdom, for Kaoleioku was a great prophet, and versed in the art of foretelling the future of a person by looking at the carriage and manners. It was because Kaoleioku had seen a great future ahead that induced him to take Umi to his home when he first met him, and bring him up as his own son. Kaoleioku then began to lay plans how Umi’s interest could be advanced more advantageously, and saw that in the reception to be accorded to the old men laid his greatest chance, for he was well aware that Nunu and Kakohe were great priests, and if he could once get their support, the future of Umi would be assured. On the fifth day of the old men’s journey, Kaoleioku began his preparations for their reception by cooking and preparing food, fish, pork, chickens and awa. [152] Kaoleioku also ordered one of his men to go and prepare some firewood. In size it was about two fathoms in girth and three yards long. After this ohia log was procured, Kaoleioku ordered it split up into small pieces, of the proper size, and then to have the pieces bundled up and tied together and restore the log to its former shape. Kaoleioku then directed a couple of men to go to an awa bush that was growing near the doorway and dig all around it. To another couple of men he gave orders that a pig be caught and tied securely with ropes. These were some of the preparations made by Kaoleioku so as to enable Umi to easily perform certain acts in the presence of the old men upon their arrival. By this we see how keen Kaoleioku was in furthering the interests of Umi. The object of these preparations made by Kaoleioku was this: When the two old men were to arrive, Umi, according to the ancient custom, must start an umu for the baking of a pig; he was then to take up the log of wood and break it into pieces, and it being already cut up it would therefore take Umi but a short time to get the wood ready, and the quickness and dispatch of the work in the breaking up of the wood, the catching of the pig and the uprooting of the awa bush would lead the old men to believe that Umi must be possessed of unusual strength. After these different preparations had been accomplished, Kaoleioku then turned to Umi and said: “My chief, tomorrow shall be the day when you will gain control of the kingdom, and by your actions on that day alone is the thing to be done. My chief, I request of you that you give ear and keep these my instructions, for your future rests in your obedience. Tomorrow you will have the chance of your life, and if you fail to take heed to my instructions, my bones will not be saved by you, for then they will be dried out in the sun.” [153]