At the close of this prayer Aiwohikupua stood up with confident face and asked Cold-nose, “Are you ready yet to strike me?”

Cold-nose answered, “I am not ready to strike you; you strike me first!”

When Cold-nose’s master heard these words he went to Cold-nose’s side and said, “You are foolish, my pupil.  If he orders you forward again then deliver the strongest blow you can give, for when he gives you the order to strike he himself begins the fight.”  So Cold-nose was satisfied.

After this, Aiwohikupua again asked Cold-nose, “Are you ready yet to strike me?  Strike my face, if you want to!”

Then Cold-nose instantly delivered a blow like the whiz of the wind at Aiwohikupua’s face, but Aiwohikupua dodged and he missed it.

As the blow missed, Aiwohikupua instantly sent his blow, struck right on the chest and pierced to his back; then Aiwohikupua lifted the man on his arm and swung him to and fro before the crowd, and threw him outside the field, and Aiwohikupua overcame Cold-nose, and all who looked on shouted.

When Cold-nose was dead his supporters came to where he was lying, those who had warned him to end the fight, and cried, “Aha!  Cold-nose, could the fruit we have never tasted save you?  Will you fight a second time with that man of might?” These were the scornful words of his supporters.

As the host were crowding about the dead body of their champion and wailing, Aiwohikupua came and cut off Cold-nose’s head with the man’s own war club[34] and threw it contemptuously to his followers; thus was his prayer fulfilled.  This ended, Aiwohikupua left the company, got aboard the canoe, and departed; and the report of the deed spread through Kohala, Hamakua, and all around Hawaii.

They sailed and touched at Honokaape at Waipio, then came off Paauhau and saw a cloud of dust rising landward.  Aiwohikupua asked his counsellor, “Why is that crowd gathering on land?  Perhaps it is a boxing match; let us go again to look on!”

His counsellor answered, “Break off that notion, for we are not taking this journey for boxing contests, but to seek a wife.”

Said Aiwohikupua to his counsellor, “Call to the steersman to turn the canoe straight ashore to hear what the crowd is for.”  The chief’s wish was obeyed, they went alongside the cliff and asked the women gathering shellfish, “What is that crowd inland for?”

The women answered, “They are standing up to a boxing match, and whoever is the strongest, he will be sent to box with the Kauai man who fought here with Cold-nose and killed Cold-nose; that is what all the shouting is about.”

So Aiwohikupua instantly gave orders to anchor the canoe, and Aiwohikupua landed with his counsellor and the two steersmen, and they went up to the boxing match; there they stood at a distance watching the people.

Then came one of the natives of the place to where they stood and Aiwohikupua asked what the people were doing, and the man answered as the women had said.