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Kaihg.-mah ; and Maing.-Lyin or Maing:-Lyl, all of which, with the 

 exception of Kaing-mah, are now, and apparently were at that time, 

 under the dominion of China. The chief of Md:-meit, then subject to 

 Pegu, had complained, that the inhabitants of those nine Shan towns 

 had committed some aggression on his territory, and the emperor of 

 China, it is said, declined to assist those towns when attacked by the 

 king of Pegu's army, because they had been once subject to the kings 

 of Pagan. The Pegu army, after conquering the country, built monas- 

 teries and pagodas, and established the Buddhist religion there in its 

 purity. 



In the year 1 601 , Nyaung Men:-dara'h, king of Ava, after re-build- 

 ing the city, and re-establishing the kingdom of Ava, which the 

 Peguers had destroyed, proceeded with a large force against the 

 Tso:-buah of Ba-md*, who had taken advantage of the downfal of the 

 extensive Pegu empire left by Tshen-byu'-mya-yen, and set himself 

 up as an independent chief. On the approach of the king, the chief 

 of Ba-m6 called Tho-tsein, fled to Yunan, and the king after taking 

 Ba-m6, advanced beyond Maing-Tein, and sent his son, the heir 

 apparent, close to Yunan with a message to the Chinese governor, 

 threatening to attack him if he refused to surrender the fugitive 

 chief. The governor made a reference to the emperor of China, who 

 directed the chief to be surrendered, observing, that he was a subject 

 of Ava, and that if the Chinese protected him their territory would 

 be disquieted. The chief of Ba-m6 was killed in an attempt to make 

 his escape, but his corpse with his wife and children was sent to the 

 prince of Ava by the governor of Yunan, and taken to the king, who 

 appointed another Tso:-buah of Ba-m6, and returned to Ava. Some 

 Burmese historians state, that the fugitive chief of Ba-m6 took poison 

 and killed himself; but the account above given is taken from the 

 edition of the Royal Chronicles, revised under the orders of the present 

 king of Ava. 



In the year 1658, during the reign of Mengi-yk'-yanda-meit, also 

 called Nga-dat-oayaka, king of Ava, Youn-lhV (Du Halde's Yong- 

 lik), who had been set up as emperor in the southern provinces of 

 China, having been attacked by the Tartars from the north, came 

 down to M6:-myin (Chinese Theng-ye-chom), and sent a message to 

 the Tso:-buah of Ba-md, saying that he would reside at Ba-m6 and 

 present 100 viss\ of gold to the king of Ava. The Tso:-buah replied, 



* The Burmese write this name Ban-mo, although they pronounce it Ba-m6. 

 B&n in the Siamese and Yun Shan languages, and Mdn in most of the other 

 Shan dialects, means a village. Some of the Shans call this place Man-md, and 

 others Kat-mai. 



t A vits is a Burmese weight equal to about 3J English pounds. 



