he was popularly called the "prince of kona" during his lifetime. on his sixteen birthday, the ambitious young prince asked his former classmate king kamehameha iv to award him with all the lands whose names started with "wai" (hawaiian for "water") such as waimea, waianae, waikapu, wailuku, waihee, waialua, waikane and so on, a request that the king refused.