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



The Chinese armies having suffered long from want of provisions, 

 those men only who were able-bodied succeeded in reaching China, 

 and the forests and mountains were filled with countless numbers 

 who died on the route from starvation. 



When the officer, whom the Wun-gyih sent with a report of the 

 peace which had been concluded with the Chinese, and with a large 

 quantity of silks and satins that had been received from the Chinese 

 generals as presents for his majesty, arrived at Ava, the king dis- 

 approved of the conduct of the general and officers, for allowing the 

 Chinese army to escape ; refused to accept the presents, and ordered 

 that the wives of the general and other chief officers should be placed 

 with the Chinese presents on their heads, in front of the western 

 gateway of the palace ; and notwithstanding that the wife of the 

 general-in-chief was a sister of the principal queen, she and the wives 

 of the other officers were exhibited for three days at the appointed 

 place, with the bundles of Chinese silks and satins on their heads. 



The Wun-gyih and other officers hearing how highly the king was 

 displeased, were afraid to return to Ava immediately, and determined 

 to go first and attack Manipur, the Tso:buah of which, they heard, 

 had been fortifying himself again. In January, 1770, therefore, the 

 Burmese army crossed to the westward of the Erdivau'i at Raung-to&n, 

 and marched to Manipur, and although the Tsoibuah of that place made 

 arrangements for checking the progress of the invaders at every defile 

 and narrow pass, the Burmese army succeeded in penetrating to the 

 capital, when the Tso:buah fled with his family and as many of his 

 adherents as he could, and concealed themselves in jungles and high 

 hills. The Burmese army seized the whole of the population and 

 property they found in the country, with the princess of Mueyen, 

 Tuonko, and princes He mo and Tsanda-yo'-kay, and brought them 

 to Ava, where they arrived on the 23rd of March, 1770. 



The king, still displeased at the Chinese army having been allowed 

 to escape into China, refused to see the Wun-gyih and other officers 

 of the Burmese army, and ordered them to be removed out of his 

 kingdom into some other territory. They were conveyed to the 

 eastern side of the Myit-ngay, which joins the Erdwadi near the north- 

 east angle of the city of Ava ; and two other Wiin-gyihs were also 

 ordered by the king to be taken to the same place, for having pre- 

 sumed to speak to his majesty in favor of the general and other 

 officers. About a month after, the king forgave the whole of them, 

 and allowed them to return to Ava. 



The Chinese generals, Thu'-kou'n-ye' and Akoun-ye', returned 

 and reported to the emperor of China, that having made peace with 



