11-0 Sir Arthur P. Phayre —The History of Tegu. [No. 2, 
stated that “ Zatan was taken and beheaded.” Yet the fortunate shot of 
Gonsalo Neto is told very circumstantially and can scarcely be an invention 
Perhaps the wound inflicted led to his capture. 
Th^minhtau was now declared king, and was consecrated after the 
ancient custom in the capital. He is henceforth called in the Talaing 
history ‘ I)zag-ga-li Meng.’ The Talaing historian dwells fondly on the 
details of the consecration, which was the last received by a native sovereign 
in Pegu. 
While these events were passing in Pegu, Bureng Naung had forced 
the city of Taungu to surrender. Pie forgave his half-brother Thihathu, 
who had refused to acknowledge him, and had taken the title of Meng 
Khaung. Bureng Naung then caused himself to be consecrated king, as 
successor to his father who had been tributary king of Taungu under the 
late emperor. He next determined to possess himself of Prome, where 
another of his brothers had, under Tabeng Shwe liti, been tributary king, 
but of which a noble, styled Thadothu, had possessed himself. He marched 
across the hills, and after some delay Prome was surrendered by treachery, 
and Thadothu was put to death. His brother Thado Dliamma Badza was 
then reinstated as tributary king. It was now the year 913 (A. D., 1551)> 
and Bureng Naung had possession of Taungu, Prome, and the country of 
the Erawati as far north as Pugan. In Ava, a struggle for supremacy was 
still going on among the Shan chiefs, and Bureng Naung deemed the time 
propitious for asserting his claim to that kingdom as the successor of 
Tabeng Shwe hti. But hearing of attacks from the Pegu side on his terri¬ 
tory, he considered it prudent first to settle affairs there, and concentrated 
his forces for that purpose at Prome and Taungu. Just then Mobye Meng, 
king of Ava', being conquered by Tsithu-kyau-hteng, had fled and taken 
refuge in Prome. Bureng Naung determined to invade Pegu from Taungu, 
and marched to that city, taking Mobye Meng with him. He set out on 
his expedition in April, 1551. His army consisted of 110,000 men, POO 
fighting elephants, and 5000 horses. 
In Pegu Thamin htau, according to the Talaing history, had entered the 
capital in August, 1550. Having placed his own adherents in the several 
districts of the delta, he, in November, marched against the governors of 
Martaban and Maulmain, who had refused to submit. Having subdued 
both without difficulty, he returned to Hanthawati. He received an em¬ 
bassy from the king of Arakan, and did everything possible to make 
himself popular, and above all, to acquire religious merit by gifts to the 
pagodas and monasteries. But hearing of the surrender of Prome to 
Bureng Naung, he knew he would soon have to fight for his kingdom ; and 
it was not long after, that news was brought that Bureng Naung himself was 
marching down by land from Taungu, and that a force under the king of 
