A TRANSLATION of the KEDDAH ANNALS. 167 
queror of Fegu. It describes his conquest in the usual hyperbo¬ 
lical terms. 
When V. De Gama doubled the Cape in A. D, 1497 Peguan 
vessels traded to Achin. Tenasserim, Tavoy and Mergui,* were 
probably originally under independent chiefs, until ibe ^iamese and 
Burmese contested for their possession, and afierw^ids alternately 
occupied them. It is cunous to observe ho w easy it is to give a 
learned etymology to any uncertain name. M D’Anville takes 
the name as applied to the former country by Europeans only; 
and forthwith we have Tanna-senm a colony of Tanna, whereas the 
native name is Tannau. The general belief of the people and all 
I can elsewhere gather would induce me to suppose that Tannau, a 
part in fact of Pegu, was originally peopled by the Laos race. 
But the admixture of the Burmese race has produced we may 
suppose some alteration in the normal type whatever that may 
have been. The Shuirnadu pagoda or Staupa was reported by 
Syme3 duiing bis embassy to Ava on the authority of a Buddhist 
priest, to have been founded 2,300 years ago (i e. dating from 
Symes’ mission) by two brothers who came from Talaumyou a 
day’s journey east of Martaban. But as this fane was undoubtedly 
Lined to the Buddha of the present Buddhist era, it must in such a 
case have been built at a period nearly contemporaneous with 
Buddha himself, which cannot be admitted with reference to the 
facts known as to the spread of this religion 
The R umi envoys appear to have quite forgotten half of their 
mission, the bringing back of the prince, for they sailed directly 
towards the W. from Kedda 
The account of Mahawangs&’s vessel is consistent enough. Tire 
sadem or siddem tree still grows too in the country wiieie the ship 
as it is related was propped up. The natives still reta ning the 
prominent points of the tradition, pretend to shew the spot where 
the vessel was drawn up, and that too where the vase rested. This 
vase is likewise believed to be still visible—arid if such really 
ever existed, even had its size been much less than here represent¬ 
ed, there is nothing against the reasonableness of the assert! rn, for 
the Peguan vases of the present day are very durable, and well 
glazed. I have seen some five or six feet high. It has not yet 
been pointed out to me however. Pegu is even now, famed for its 
large jais, which form an article of trade betwixt that country 
and Pinang, 
The vase for Buddhas Bo Sree was nine cubits in circumference 
and five feet deep. There is one remark which forcibly occurs to 
me with reference to the multitude of animals stated to have been 
slaughtered for food on the young Raja’s installation. If his tribe 
had been strict Buddhists such a sacrifice could not consistently 
have been made. The Buddhist laity however seem to have pretty 
generally satisfied their consciences by the conceit of not killing 
to eat, but of eating what had been killed without their previous 
