She asked him for one of his beautiful leis of lehua flowers, but he said he must refuse because she was tabu. “No! No!” she replied. “Nothing is tabu for me to receive. It will be tabu after I have worn it.” So he gave her the garland of flowers. That part of the surf is named Kalehua-wike (The-loosened-lehua).
Then he asked her to launch her board on the first wave and let him come in on the second. She did not go, but caught the second wave as he swept by. He saw her, and tried to cut across from his wave to the next. She followed him, and very skilfully caught that wave and swept to the beach with him.
A great cry came from the people. “That boy has broken the tabu!” “There is death for the boy!”
The king, Kakuhihewa, heard the shout and looked toward the sea. He saw the tabu queen and that boy on the same surf-wave.
He called to his officers: “Go quickly and seize that young chief who has broken the tabu of the queen. He shall not live.”
The officers ran to him, seized him, tossed him [[168]]around, tore off his malo, struck him with clubs, and began to kill him.
Pikoi cried: “Stop! Wait until I have had word with the king.”
They led him to the place where the king waited. Some of the people insulted him, and threw dirt and stones upon him as he passed.
The king was in kindly mood and listened to his explanation instead of ordering him to be killed at once.
While he was speaking before the king, the queen and the other women came. One of them looked carefully at him and recognized some peculiar marks on his side. She exclaimed, “There is the wonderful child who won the victory from Mainele. He is the skilful rat-shooter.”