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loHn-dd.-gu ford, with orders to stop and cut off a convoy of provi- 

 sions which was coming to the Chinese. This service was success- 

 fully performed, and the Chinese general Tsu'-ta'-lo-yk' and other 

 officers finding their own supplies intercepted, were unable to spare 

 any for their army which was in advance under Myeng-koun-ye' 

 The Chinese near Theinni were soon in great distress from a scarcity 

 of provisions, and too uneasy to come out and attack the Burmese. 

 Hearing a report also, that Teingya':men:gaung was coming to 

 attack them with 1 ,000 musth elephants, the whole Chinese camp were 

 watching the clouds*. At this time, the Let-we-weng-mhu, who 

 had marched by the M6:meit road, arrived with his ten divisions, 

 and joined the Wiin-gyih Maha' Thi'ha-thu'ra before Theinni. 

 The Let-w£-weng-mhu proposed to the Wiin-gyih to let him march 

 on at once with 30 divisions, and fall on the rear of the Chinese 

 advanced force near Thlbo ; but the Wiin-gyih was of opinion, that 

 the Chinese near Theinni should first be disposed of, and believing 

 that the town of Theinni, in which Shans and Chinese were inter- 

 mingled, could be more easily carried than the Chinese works outside 

 under their general Tsu'-ta'-lo-ye', the Wun-gyih stormed Theinni 

 with three divisions of 10,000 men each, and captured it with the 

 whole of the Chinese magazines. The ex-Tso:buah, several Chinese 

 officers of rank, and as many of the garrison as could escape, fled 

 into the Chinese entrenchments beyond the town, but nearly 2 or 

 3,000 Shans and Chinese were killed. 



The "Wun-gyih Maha' Thi'ha-thu'ra then made arrangements for 

 depriving the Chinese camp of their supply of water, and posted 

 divisions of his army in a line along the Ndn-beng river, from the 

 south of Theinni from Kyatik Ko&n on that river to the east of the 

 town, covering at the same time the Ndn-tu river, and planting troops 

 at every road or passage leading down to the points at which the 

 Chinese used to come and take water. The Chinese army soon began 

 to experience great distress, no provisions being able to reach them 

 from the rear, as well as being in want of water ; and when the 

 Wun-gyih ascertained this fact through some prisoners who had 

 come over to the Burmese in search of water, he attacked the Chinese 

 entrenchments at three points with more than 30 divisions and 

 captured them. The emperor of China's brother, Tsu'-ta-lo-ye', 

 finding the army unmanageable, cut his throat with his own sword 

 and died. The Chinese fled pursued by the Burmese, who took a 

 great many prisoners, together with arms, elephants and horses, and 



* Tein in the Burmese language means cloud, and a/cyd, or in composition 

 gyd, means between. This is Symes's Tengia Boo. 

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