his successor, seru epenisa cakobau, fought to consolidate bauan domination throughout the 1850s and 1860s, and started calling himself the "tui viti," or king of fiji. he faced opposition from local chiefs who saw him at best as first among equals, and also from the tongan prince enele ma'afu, who had established himself on the island of lakeba in the lau archipelago in 1848.