The black pearl necklace

Once upon a time, there lived a very beautiful young girl named Hina. All the fairies of the sky had bent over her cradle and had endowed her with all the qualities: grace, beauty, intelligence, kindness. Never had the island of Raiatea known a queen who brought together so many qualities.

At twenty years old, her heart had not yet been made, despite the assiduous courtship of many suitors. However, a day came when Hina met the young man who made her heartbeats She got engaged without delay and announced the upcoming date of her wedding. As a token of love, the fiancé, very smitten, offered her the most extraordinary gift which was matched only by the very pure feelings he held for her. Upon discovering his present, Hina was amazed. Neither all the gold of his palace, nor the diamonds of his crown, nor the splendor of his houses, equaled such wonder. In all of Polynesia, no fisherman had ever imagined that pearls of such size, of such perfection, could exist. Black, they sparkled with a thousand splendors on the neck of the queen, who swore never again to part with this necklace that all the gold in the world could not have taken from her. Although she was dying for it, Hina, in agreement with her fiancé, decided to only wear this necklace from the day their wedding would be celebrated. In the meantime, this priceless necklace would be guarded by armed men, who would watch over it day and night.
The black pearl necklace - illustration 1
One day, while Hina was giving audience to her subjects, she refused a man's request, as happened when the request did not seem justified to her. Now, this man was none other than Hiro, the king of thieves.
After having been a rejected suitor of the young queen, Hiro suffered a second affront, which he could not bear. Feeling humiliated, his jealousy quickly turned into hatred, and Hiro resolved to take revenge by attacking what the queen held dearest: her pearl necklace. A master in matters of theft, after having foiled all the traps and deceived the surveillance of the armed guards, he managed by a thousand tricks to seize the precious jewel.
With his revenge in hand, and even before the alarm was given, Hiro was already reaching the neighboring island of Huahine, by canoe.
Sur Raiatea, as soon as the theft was discovered and announced to the queen, Hina collapsed, overcome by infinite sadness. With the theft of her necklace, a part of her heart had just been taken from her… and the thief knew it!
The black pearl necklace - illustration 2
Immediately guessed who was hiding behind this misdeed . There was only one person on earth so daring and capable of defying the surveillance of the royal guard. It was of course the terrible Hiro, the king of thieves. Without further ado, Hina took the research into her own hands and decided to launch the most impressive of her hounds after the criminal, a beast whose extraordinary strength and flair were matched only by its imposing stature.
Immediately, the superb animal-headed towards the water's edge, already pointing its snout in the direction of Huahine.
On this island, Hiro thought he was safe. Upon his arrival, he hid his prestigious loot under an impressively heavy stone. “In this place,” he thought, “no one will ever be able to flush out my loot. There is no one on earth as smart as Hiro, the King of Thieves! » But the queen's mastiff was already approaching the banks of Huahine... With his nose as big as a coconut in the wind, his work very quickly bore fruit. Fleeing into the mountain where his landmark was located, Hiro was far from suspecting such a rapid conclusion... The hound stopped at the very place where Hiro had hidden the precious necklace and, as if to mark the precise place where he hid the treasure, he placed his heavy paw on the stone. Once the stone was lifted, Hina took back her necklace and married, as it should be, her beloved fiancé...
Since this day, we can see, on the island of Huahine, the imprint of an animal's paw of impressive size engraved in this well-known rock.
The black pearl necklace - illustration 3

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