CHAPTER IX 
After this refusal, then Aiwohikupua said to his counsellor, “ You 
and I will go home and let my sisters stay up here; as for them, let 
them live as they can, for they are worthless; they have failed to 
gain my wish.” 
Said the counsellor, “ This is very strange! I thought before we 
left Kauai you told me that your sisters were the only ones to get 
your wish, and you have seen now what one of them can do; you 
have ordered Mailehaiwale to do her part, and we have heard, too, the 
refusal of Laieikawai. Is this your sisters’ fault, that we should go 
and leave them? But without her you have four sisters left; it may 
be one of them will succeed.” 
Said Aiwohikupua, “If the firstborn fails, the others perhaps will 
be worthless.” 
His counsellor spoke again, “ My lord, have patience; let Maile- 
kaluhea try her luck, and if she fails then we will go.” 
Now, this saying pleased the chief; said Aiwohikupua, “ Suppose 
you try your luck, and if you fail, all is over.” 
Mailekaluhea went and stood at the door of the chief-house and 
gave out a perfume; the fragrance entered and touched the rafters 
within the house, from the rafters it reached Laieikawai and her 
companion; then they were startled from sleep. 
Said Laieikawai to her nurse, “This is a different perfume, not 
like the first, it is better than that; perhaps it comes from a man.” 
The nurse said, “Call out to your grandmother to tell you the 
meaning of the fragrance.” 
Laieikawai called: 
Larerkawat: “O Waka! O Waka—O!” 
Waka: “ Heigh-yo! why waken in the middle of the night? ” 
Larerkawat: “ Here is a fragrance, a strange fragrance, a cool fra- 
grance, a chilling fragrance; it goes to my heart.” 
Waka. “That is no strange fragrance, it is Mailekaluhea, the 
sweet-smelling sister of Aiwohikupua, who has come to make you 
his wife to marry him.” 
Larerkawat: “ Bah! I will not marry him!” 
Said Aiwohikupua to his counsellor, “See! did you hear the 
princess’s refusal ?” 
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