382 HAWAITAN ROMANCE OF LAIEIKAWAI [ETH. ANN. 33 
The chief readily agreed to the princess’s words. In the first game, 
Aiwohikupua lost. 
Then said the princess, “I have won over you; you have nothing 
more to put up, unless it be your younger brother; in that case I 
will bet with you again.” 
To this jesting offer of the princess, Aiwohikupua readily gave 
his word of assent. 
During the talk, Aiwohikupua gave to the princess this coun- 
sel. “ Although I belong to you, and this is well, yet let us not at 
once become lovers, not until I return from my journey about 
Hawaii; for I vowed before sailing hither to know no woman until 
I had made the circuit of Hawaii; after that I will do what you 
please as we have agreed. So I lay my command upon you before I 
go, to live in complete purity, not to consent to any others, not to do 
the least thing to disturb our compact; and when I return from 
sight-seeing, then the princess’s stake shall be paid. If when I re- 
turn you have not remained pure, not obeyed my commands, then 
there is an end of it.” 
Now, this was not Aiwohikupua’s real intention. After laying his 
commands upon Hinaikamalama, they left Maui and went to 
Kapakai at Kohala. 
The next day they left Kapakai and sailed along by Kauhola, and 
Aiwohikupua saw a crowd of men gathering mountainward of 
Kapaau. ‘ 
Then Aiwohikupua ordered the boatmen to paddle inshore, for he 
wanted to see why the crowd was gathering. 
When they had come close in to the landing at Kauhola the chief 
asked why the crowd was gathering; then a native of the place said 
they were coming together for a boxing match. 
At once Aiwohikupua trembled with eagerness to go and see the 
boxing match; they made the canoe fast, and Aiwohikupua, with his 
counsellor and the two steersmen, four in number, went ashore. 
When they came to Hinakahua, where the field was cleared for 
boxing, the crowd saw that the youth from Kauai surpassed in beauty 
all the natives of the place, and they raised a tumult. 
After the excitement the boxing field again settled into order; then 
Aiwohikupua leaned against the trunk of a milo tree to watch the 
attack begin. 
