"What sort of a coming back is this?" demanded Kana.

"I slipped and fell, and just escaped with my life," answered Niheu.

"Back with you!" thundered Kana.

Again the luckless Niheu sprang ashore, but the long-eyed sand-crabs
(_ohiki-makaloa_) made the sand fly with their scratching till his
eyes were filled. Back to the canoes again he went. "Got it all in
my eyes!" said he, and he washed them out with sea-water.

"You fool!" shouted Kana; "what were you looking down for? The
sand-crabs are not birds. If you had been looking up, as you ought,
you would not have got the sand in your eyes. Go again!"

This time he succeeded, and climbed to the top of Haupu. Arriving at
the house, Hale-huki, where Hina dwelt, he entered at once. Being asked
"Why enterest thou this forbidden door?" he replied:

"Because I saw thee entering by this door. Hadst thou entered some
other way, I should not have come in at the door." And behold,
Kapeepeekauila and Hina sat before him. Then Niheu seized the hand
of Hina and said, "Let us two go." And she arose and went.

When they had gone about half-way to the brink of the precipice,
Kapeepeekauila exclaimed, "What is this? Is the woman gone?"

Mo-i, the sister of Kana, answered and said, "If you wish the woman,
now is the time; you and I fight."