the "stubbornness of Laieikawai."

CHAPTER XIV

When Hauailiki saw that Laieikawai still paid no attention to him he
made up his mind to come in on the surf without the board.

He left it and swam out to the breakers. As he was swimming Laieikawai
said, "Hauailiki must be crazy."

Her companions said, "Perhaps he will ride in on the surf without a
board."

When Hauailiki got to the breakers, just as the crest rose and broke at
his back, he stood on its edge, the foam rose on each side of his neck
like boars' tusks. Then all on shore shouted and for the first time
Laieikawai smiled; the feat was new to her eyes and to her guardians
also.

When Hauailiki saw Laieikawai smiling to herself he thought she had
taken a liking to him because of this feat, so he kept on repeating it
until five breakers had come in; no summons came to him from Laieikawai.

Then Hauailiki was heavy-hearted because Laieikawai took no notice of
him, and he felt ashamed because of his boast to Aiwohikupua, as we have
seen in the last chapter.

So he floated gently on the waves, and as he floated the time drew near
for Laieikawai's party to return to Paliuli. Then Laieikawai beckoned to
Hauailiki.

When Hauailiki saw the signal the burden was lifted from his mind;
Hauailiki boasted to himself, "You wanted me all the time; you just
delayed."

And at the signal of the princess of Paliuli he lay upon the breaker and
landed right where Laieikawai and her companions were sitting; then
Laieikawai threw a _lehua_ wreath around Hauailiki's neck, as she always
did for those who showed skill in surf riding. And soon after the mist
and fog covered the land, and when it passed away nothing was to be seen
of Laieikawai and her party; they were at Paliuli.

This was the last time that Laieikawai's party came to Keaau while
Hauailiki was there; after Hauailiki's return to Kauai, then Laieikawai
came again to Keaau.

After Laieikawai's party were gone to the uplands of Paliuli, Hauailiki
left off surf riding and joined his guide, the chief counsellor of
Aiwohikupua. Said he, "I think she is the only one who is impregnable;
what, Aiwohikupua said is true. There is no luck in my beauty or my
skill in surf riding; only one way is left, for us to foot it to Paliuli
to-night." To this proposal of Hauailiki his comrade assented.

In the afternoon, after dinner, the two went up inland and entered the
forest where it was densely overgrown with underb