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to her father of being neglected and degraded. The king of Ava now 
entered into communication with his brothers the kings of Tauno-u and 
Prome, and also with the king of Zimme, to sound them as to how far they 
would support him against the young emperor. They at once disclosed 
the intrigue. The emperor suspected that many of his nobles and officers 
had joined in a conspiracy against him, and thirty of them with their wives 
and children were burnt as traitors. The Emperor now determined to 
march to Ava, and was joined by the kings of Prome and Taungu with their 
armies. Advancing by the latter city, the emperor reached Pan-wa in May, 
1584. The battle which followed, the Burmese history represents rather as 
a duel between the uncle and nephew, than as an action between two 
armies ; while a contemporary European authority seems to intimate that 
after the personal encounter between the two leaders, a great slaughter of 
the Ava army occurred. The king and the emperor, each on his war- 
elephant, fought desperately, and had a select body of supporters who joined 
in the conflict. But the two chief antagonists appear to have singled each 
other out. The victory depended on the staunchest elephant, and though 
the emperor’s fell exhausted, yet a fresh one being supplied, which he forth¬ 
with mounted, the victory was secured to him. The king of Ava fled and 
escaping from the field, entered the Chinese territory, where he died soon 
after. The emperor carried away his uncle’s family to HanthSwati, and 
appointed Maung Setya, a son of the Emperor Tabeng-shwe-hti, to be 
governor of Ava. He died not long after, and Meng-re-kyau-tswa, a 
younger son of the Emperor, was made tributary king. 
During the contest near Ava, the conduct of Byanarit, king of Siam, 
was at first suspicious and then openly hostile. The Burmese and Talaino- 
histories leave it doubtful what family Byanarit belonged to, but this is 
made clear by the history of Siam. That history, as related by Pallegoix 
and quoted by Sir John Bowring, agrees in the main with the history of 
Burma regarding the great struggle between the two countries during 
about fifty years in the sixteenth century; but differs considerably as to 
the dates of some events. The first and unsuccessful siege of the capital 
Yuthia (Yodaya) by Tabeng Shwe-hti, according to the Siamese history, 
took place in A. D. 1543. This event in the Burmese and Talaing histories 
is stated to have occurred in 1548-49. The next invasion of Siam was by 
Bureng Naung, and took place according to the Burmese history in A. D. 
1563-64, but by the Siamese history in 1547-48. On this occasion the 
white elephants were taken, and the king of Siam was carried away, his son 
Bramahin being made tributary king. The Siamese history states that, in 
1552, the king abdicated in favour of his son. This event probably answers 
to the statement in the Burmese history of the king while in captivity at 
Pegu, becoming a Italian about the year A. D. 1568. He would thus neces- 
