380 HAWAIIAN ROMANCE OF LAIEIKAWAI [ETH. ANN. 33 
When the people of the place had ended surfing and Hinaika- 
malama 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 Hinaika- 
malama was bathing, but their state of mind got them into trouble. 
When Aiwohikupua and his companion had put some distance be- 
tween 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 Aiwohi- 
kupua, “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, they went out surf riding and as they-rode, 
behold! the princess conceived a passion for Aiwohikupua, and many 
others took a violent liking to the chief. 
After the bath, they returned to the canoe thinking to go aboard 
and set out, but Aiwohikupua saw the princess playing konané** 
and the stranger chief thought he would play a game with her; now, 
the princess had first called them to come and play. 
So Aiwohikupua joined the princess; they placed the pebbles on 
the board, and the princess asked, “ What will the stranger stake 
if the game is lost to the woman of Hana?” 
Said Aiwohikupua, “TI will stake my double canoe afloat here on 
the sea, that is my wager with you.” 
Said the princess, “ Your wager, stranger, is not well—a still 
lighter stake would be our persons; if I lose to you then I become 
yours and will do whatever you tell me just as we have agreed, and 
if you lose to me, then you are mine; as you would do to me, so shall 
T to you, and you shall dwell here on Maui.” 
