1873.] 
Sir Arthur P. Phayre —*The History of Pegu. 
139 
“ Soarez de Melo, after the wonderful rise already mentioned. James Soarez 
“ passing by a rich merchant’s house on the day after his daughter’s wedding 
“ and seeing the great beauty of the bride, attempted to carry her away by 
“ force, killing the bridegroom and others who came to her rescue. Mean- 
“ while the bride strangled herself. The father expecting no justice while 
“ that king reigned, shut himself up, and never stirred abroad, till Xemin de 
“ Zatan coming to the crown, he so lamented his wrong about the town, 
“ that above 50,000 of the people gathered about him, crying out for justice, 
“ The new king fearing some worse consequence, caused Soarez to be appre- 
“ hended and delivered up to that rabble. This was accordingly performed, 
“ and the multitude stoning him, he was in a minute buried under a heap 
“ of rubbish. No sooner was that done, but they took the body from under 
“ that pile, and tearing it in pieces, delivered it to the boys to drag about 
“ the streets, they giving them alms for so doing. His house was plundered, 
“ and the treasure found being much less than what was expected, it was 
“ believed he had buried the rest. The new king, Xemin de Zatan, soon 
“ followed James Soarez, for his subjects no longer able to bear his cruelty 
“ and avarice, fled in great numbers to Xemindoo, who was now master of 
“ some considerable towns. He marched to the city of Pegu with 200,000 men 
“ and 5,000 elephants. Zatan met him with 800,000, and the fight was 
“ long doubtful, till Gonsalo Neto, who with 80 Portugueses followed 
“ Xemindoo, killed Zatan with a musket shot, which opened the way for 
“ Xemindoo into the city, where he was crowned on the 3rd February, 1550. 
Gonsalo Neto received 10,000 crowns for that fortunate shot, and his 
companions 5000.” 
It may be well here to explain how the Portuguese historian has failed 
to recognise Bureng Nairng when mentioned under other names or titles. 
He probably drew information from letters and reports sent by many 
different officers through a long series of years to the Viceroy at Goa, and 
these were not used for the history until about a century later. Bureng 
Naung was for ten years the general of the armies of Tabeng Shwehti, 
and afterwards his successor. When he became emperor, he assumed 
different titles at different periods, and the writers of reports regarding 
him probably used these different titles, so that it would not be possible 
without some key to understand that they all referred to the same person. 
The term Bureng Naung is rendered ‘ Branginoco’ by the Portuguese, and 
in some accounts his actions, under this title as general, are attributed to 
him as king. Mandaragi is a common title for a king, used in conversation. 
The term ‘ Chaumigrem’ is for Tsheng-phyu-mya sheng, = Lord of many 
white elephants, one of the later titles assumed by Bureng Naung. The 
letter ‘ u’ in Chaumigrem, is a misprint for ‘n.’ 
In another part of the Portuguese history, as we have seen, it was 
U 
U 
