J 48 Autobiography of Tsura Moung-B&, [ApRtt. 



called away, hurried into a boat with many rowers, and carri- 

 ed with rapidity to Dalla. My mother left all her pro- 

 perty behind except a few ornaments. 



I lived in the district of Dalla quietly for about one 

 year, at the expiration of which an insurrection broke out. 

 In the year 1145, Gna-kontau and Gnasat who were Ta- 

 lains* and the Paineensf of two royalboats headed the insur= 

 gents, attacked and carried Rangoon and kept possession 

 of it for seven days. My aunt's husband the Toit-thoo- 

 ghee of Dalla joined the insurgents. The royal army at 

 last made its appearance, defeated the rebels, retook Ran- 

 goon, and apprehended a vast number of the insurgents of 

 whom about three tliousand were executed, and amongst 

 them my uncle. A great many were burnt to death after 

 the usual Burman custom. A house of bamboo trellis work, 

 with a floor of the same description was built, under which 

 a quantity of straw and gunpowder v/as placed ; the cri- 

 minals were bound hand and foot and put into this house. 

 Neither age nor sex was spared ; — it was sufficient to be 

 connected by blood or marriage with a rebel to be deemed 

 worthy of this cruel death. The guilty and innocent 

 suffered alike. A train was laid to the powder, and on 

 a signal given the whole were blown up. 



In this insurrection I was accused of having had my share 

 from the circumstance of my living with my uncle; but on 

 explaining the manner in which I had been withdrawn 

 from my office at Prome, I was, with great difficulty excus- 

 ed, with the confiscation, however, of all the property I 

 possessed which left me in great distress. I repaired to 

 Rangoon with my mother, whilst my aunt was ordered up 

 to Ava. 



My half-brother had been ordered down with a divisi- 

 on of the royal army against the rebels, and found me 

 out at Dalla. He wished me to return with him to Prome, 

 but my mother resolved not to go, and I staid with her. 

 My half-brother gave me fifty tickals of silver, and a 

 PutzoJ for my present necessities, and recommended me 

 to a friend of his in Rangoon who employed me as a clerk. 



* A race of people inhabiting Fegue. 



f Literally helmsmen, people of some consec[ueuce in the Royal warboats, 

 % A man's clotk or die,is ; 



