by a storm and could not go to Molokai.
After ten days they saw that it was calm to seaward. That night and the
next day they sailed to Polihua, on Lanai, and from there to Ukumehame,
and as the wind was unfavorable, remained there, and the next day left
that place and went to Kipahulu.
At Kipahulu the chief said he would go along the coast afoot and the men
by boat. Now, wherever they went the people applauded the beauty of
Aiwohikupua.
They left Kipahulu and went to Hana, the chief and his counsellor by
land, the men by canoe. On the way a crowd followed them for admiration
of Aiwohikupua.
When they reached the canoe landing at Haneoo at Hana the people crowded
to behold the chief, because of his exceeding beauty.
When the party reached there the men and women were out surf riding in
the waves of Puhele, and among them was one noted princess of Hana,
Hinaikamalama by name. When they saw the princess of Hana, the chief and
his counsellor conceived a passion for her; that was the reason why
Aiwohikupua stayed there that day.
When the people of the place had ended surfing and Hinaikamalama rode
her last breaker, as she came in, the princess pointed her board
straight at the stream of Kumaka where Aiwohikupua and his companion had
stopped.
While the princess was bathing in the water of Kumaka the chief and his
counsellor desired her, so the chief's counsellor pinched Aiwohikupua
quietly to withdraw from the place where Hinaikamalama was bathing, but
their state of mind got them into trouble.
When Aiwohikupua and his companion had put some distance between
themselves and the princess's bathing place, the princess called, "O
chiefs, why do you two run away? Why not throw off your garment, jump
in, and join us, then go to the house and sleep? There is fish and a
place to sleep. That is the wealth of the people of this place. When you
wish to go, go; if you wish to stay, this is Hana, stay here."
At these words of the princess the counsellor said to Aiwohikupua, "Ah!
the princess would like you for her lover! for she has taken a great
fancy to you."
Said Aiwohikupua, "I should like to be her lover, for I see well that
she is more beautiful than all the other women who have tempted me; but
you have heard my vow not to take any woman of these islands to wife."
At these words his counsellor said, "You are bound by that vow of yours;
better, therefore, that this woman be mine."
After this little parley,
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