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first four; and the angry lover in a rage refuses to allow the last and 
youngest to try her charms. Abandoning them all to their fate in 
the forest, he sails back to Kauai. The youngest and favorite, indeed, 
he would have taken with him, but she will not abandon her sisters. 
By her wit and skill she gains the favor of the royal beauty, and all 
five are taken into the household of Laieikawai to act as guardians 
of her virginity and pass upon any suitors for her hand. 
When Aiwohikupua, on his return, confesses his ill fortune, a hand- 
some comrade, the best skilled in surfing over all the islands, lays a bet 
to win the beauty of Paliuli. He, too, returns crestfallen, the guards 
having proved too watchful. But Aiwohikupua is so delighted to hear 
of his sisters’ position that he readily cancels the debt and hurries 
off to Puna. His sisters, however, mindful of his former cruelty, 
deny him access, and he returns to Kauai burning with rage, to 
collect a war party to lead against the obdurate girls. Only after 
band after band has been swallowed up in the jaws of the great lizard 
who guards Paliuli, and his supernatural fighting dog has returned 
with ears bitten off and tail between its legs, does he give over the 
attempt and return home disconsolate to Kauai. 
Now, on his first voyage to Puna, as the chief came to land at 
Hana, Maui, a high chiefess named Hina fell in love with him. 
The two staking their love at a game of konane, she won him for 
her lover. He excused himself under pretext of a vow to first tour 
about Hawaii, but pledged himself to return. On the return 
trip he encountered and fell in love with the woman of the 
mountain, Poliahu or Snow-bosom, but she, knowing through her 
supernatural power of his affair with Hina, refused his advances. 
Now, however, he determines to console himself with this lady. His - 
bird ambassadors go first astray and notify Hina, but finally the 
tryst is arranged, the bridal cortege arrives in state, and the bridal 
takes place. On their return to Kauai during certain games cele- 
brated by the chiefs, the neglected Hina suddenly appears and de- 
mands her pledge. The jealous Poliahu disturbs the new nuptials 
by plaguing their couch first with freezing cold, then with burning 
heat, until she has driven away her riy sit She then herself takes 
her el departure. 
Kauakahialii, the high chief of Kauai, now about to die, cedes 
the succession to his favorite chief, Kekalukaluokewa, and bids 
him seek out the beauty of Paliuli for a bride. He is acceptable 
to both the girl and her grandmother—to the first for his good looks, 
to the second for his rank and power. But before the marriage can 
be consummated a wily rascal of Puna, through the arts of his wise 
sister Malio, abducts Laieikawai while she and her lover are 
out surfing, by his superior dexterity wins her affection, and makes 
off with her to Paliuli. When the grandmother discovers her grand- 
