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on the way, died at the village of Mraosik Kheon (Chota AnaJc). After this, 

 nothing particular occurred till the year 1173, when Khyngberring, with 

 other Surdars, formed a resolution to attempt the expulsion of the Burmese, 

 and having collected about five hundred Mugs, invaded Aracan in twenty- 

 five boats, and landed at the village of Mujay, the Kheoiik of which place 

 immediately joined them with about four hundred men : they then proceeded 

 to Oreatong, attacked the Burmese Thannah, and put them all to death. On 

 information reaching the Raja of Aracan, he would not at first believe it : 

 the next day Khyngberring arrived with a fleet of war boats, at Bahudong 

 Ghat, where he was met by the Raja, and defeated. After this, Myngi Kheo- 

 DONG turned every Mug out of the lown of Aracan. Khyngberring, al- 

 though worsted in his attack upon Aracan, had still a considerable force 

 under his command, part of which he detached under some steady Surdars to- 

 wards Talak, with orders to destroy all the villages that did not join him. They 

 burnt Nio7ig Khwakan and Talak, which created such terror amongst the 

 Mugs, that they all declared for him, and joined his standard, and he very 

 shortly overrun the province of Aracan and its dependancies. Myngi Kheo- 

 DONG, not being able to oppose him in the field, applied his means for the 

 protection of the capital. The Cheduba Raja, with a force of about three 

 thousand men, attempted to reinforce the Burmese troops, but he was at- 

 tacked by a party of Mugs, under Mayok Tungshay, near the village of 

 Nattong, about two days journey from Aracan, killed, and his force com- 

 pletely defeated, with the loss of about one thousand men: the rest fled into 

 jungles, and escaped. Shortly after, the Governors of Ramree and Sandoway 

 came to retrieve the Burmese character, and punish the insurgents, with a 

 force consisting of about five thousand men, in two hundred war boats. 

 The Mugs waited for them at the village of King Nawa, near to where 

 they had defeated the Cheduba Raja. The Mug fleet consisted of eighty 

 large boats, under Khyngberring in person, attacked the Burmese with 

 such bravery and skill, as completely to defeat them with great loss, and 



