440 HAWAIIAN ROMANCE OF LAIEIKAWAI [ETH. ANN. 88 
“T have heard from your younger sister that you are all of the 
same parentage and the same blood; therefore I shall treat you all as 
one blood with me, and we shall protect each other. Whatever one 
says, the others shall do. Whatever trouble comes to one, the others 
shall share; and for this reason I have asked our grandmother to 
furnish you a home where you may live virgin like myself, no one 
taking a husband without the others’ consent. So shall it be well 
with us from this time on.” ** 
To these conditions the stranger girls agreed; the younger sister 
answered the princess for them all: 
“© princess, we are happy that you receive us; happy, too, 
that you take us to be your sisters as you have said; and so we obey. 
Only one thing we ask of you: All of us sisters have been set apart 
by our parents to take no delight in men; and it is their wish that we 
remain virgin until the end of our days; and so we, your servants, 
beseech you not to defile us with any man, according to the princess’s 
pleasure, but to allow us to live virgin according to our parents’ vow.” 
And this request of the strangers seemed good to the princess. 
After talking with the princess concerning all these things, they 
were dismissed to the house prepared for them. 
As soon as the girls went to live in the house they consulted how 
they should obey the princess’s commands, and they appointed their 
younger sister to speak to the princess about what they had agreed 
upon. 
One afternoon, just as the princess woke from sleep, came Ka- 
halaomapuana to amuse the princess by playing on the trumpet 
until the princess wished it no longer. 
Then she told Laieikawai what the sisters had agreed upon and 
said, “O princess, we have consulted together how to protect you, 
and all five of us have agreed to become the bodyguard for your 
house; ours shall be the consent, ours the refusal. If anyone wishes 
to see you, be he a man, or maybe a woman, or even a chief, he shall 
not see you without our approval. Therefore I pray the princess 
to consent to what we have agreed.” : 
Said Laieikawai, “I consent to your agreement, and yours shall 
be the guardianship over all the land of Paliuli.” 
