126 Some account of the Wars between Burmah and China. [Feb. 



that he dare not forward such a message to Ava, and Youn-lhi' then 

 offered to become a subject of the king of Ava. The Ts6:-buah made 

 a reference to Ava, and the king ordered him to allow Youn-lhi' 

 and his followers to come in, upon condition that they relinquished 

 their arms, and to forward them to Ava. Youn-lhi' then came in 

 with upwards of sixty of his nobles, including the governor of Maing- 

 Tslh or Yunan, and 600 horsemen, and the whole were forwarded to 

 Ava, and a spot of ground in the opposite town of Tsagain was allot- 

 ted to them. The Burmese chronicles, however, create an impres- 

 sion, that Youn-lhi' desired to carve out a new kingdom for himself 

 in Burmah, — and state, that before coming into Ba-m6, he ordered a 

 large army which was still under his orders, to march after him 

 towards Ava by two different routes, one portion by M6:-meit, and 

 the other by Thein-ni and Md-ne**. Shortly after Youn-lhi' reached 

 Ava, accounts were received that a large force belonging to him was 

 attacking the Burmese territory near M6:-meit, and when questioned 

 by the Burmese, Youn-lhi' said, that his generals were not aware 

 of his having become a subject of the king of Ava, but that he would 

 write a letter, by showing which the Chinese generals would desist. 

 The king of Ava, however, preferred marching a force against the 

 Chinese, who defeated it, as also a second force, and then came down 

 and attacked the city of Ava. Some of the exterior fortifications 

 were carried, and the Chinese penetrated to the southward, set fire 

 to the monasteries and houses, and desolated a large tract of country 

 in that direction. They then returned to the assault of the city, but 

 were repulsed with much loss ; and a heavy fire being kept up 

 against them from the guns on the walls, which were served by a 

 foreigner named Mi-thaui' Katan (Mr. Cotton ?) and a party of 

 native Christians, a shot killed a man of rank among the Chinese, 

 who then retreated from before Ava, and proceeded towards M6.-n4 

 and joined the other portion of Youn-lhi"s army, which had been 

 ordered to march down by Thein-ni and M6-n4. The king then 

 repaired the fortifications of Ava, and summoned to his assistance his 

 two brothers, the chiefs of Taung-ngu and Prome. The Chinese army 

 when united again advanced from M6-n4, and succeeded, notwith- 

 standing many attempts made by the Burmese to stop and check 



* In the account of the journey of certain Chinese from Siam to China by 

 land, given in the 1st vol. of Du Halde, it is stated, that when the Tartars 

 made themselves masters of China, " a great number of Chinese fugitives from 

 the province of Yunan dispossessed their neighbours of their land, and settled 

 there themselves, and the inhabitants of Kamarett (a Shan town on the fron- 

 tiers of China) were forced to abandon their city.'' 



