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Taungu was left in command, while the rest of the army under the emperor 
marched in pursuit of the enemy. The Leng-dzeng king was too wary to 
come to an engagement, and the invaders were wearied with long marches 
and want of food. At length, they returned to Maing-zan, and the whole 
army re-crossing the Mekong reached Pithalauk, in June 1570. # Prom 
thence the emperor reached Hantliawati in the following month. Of the 
original army which marched to subdue Siam, very few survived. 
The emperor’s first care after his arrival was to make rich offerings to 
the pagodas; to cast fresh images in precious metals, and to complete a new 
Hlwut dau, or royal council chamber, within the palace. He had turned his 
attention to foreign trade by sea, and built a ship of his own, which he sent 
loaded with merchandize to Melapiit (?) and other ports of Ceylon and 
Southern India. In 1571, a rebellion of the northern Shans of Mo-gaung 
and Monhyin occurred. A force under the crown-prince and the king of 
Ava was sent against them ; but the Tsaubwas could not be found, and the 
army was recalled. During this interval, the king of Leng-dzeng for some 
unexplained reason made an attack on a city belonging to Cambodia,f and 
was killed. One of his nobles usurped the throne. But the emperor, who 
had the deceased king’s brother, named Ubarit, at his court, determined to 
support his claim, as he consented to become a tributary. An army was 
sent under the great general Binya Dala, to place him on the throne, but 
the expedition was unsuccessful. He was either put to death or sent into 
exile to a sickly place where he died. Binya Dala appears to have been 
a native of Pegu, but probably of Shan descent. 
The last expedition of Bureng Naung against Siam, and afterwards into 
Laos, is related by the Portuguese historian in such a manner, that he ap¬ 
pears to assert that the city of Yodaya was not taken. The fact of its 
surrender, however, admits of no doubt, though from the great loss sustained 
by the besiegers, it probably would not have fallen, had it not been for the 
treachery which has been related. De Sousa, after relating the capture of 
the Siamese princes in the first siege, but apparently not knowing that their 
father, the senior or first king of Siam was carried off as a hostage, proceeds 
thus : “ After some time, the two brothers asked leave of the king to visit 
“ their father, which he granted, and afterwards sending to demand the usual 
* This is probably a mistake for June, 1569, as will be seen farther on. 
f Cambodia is called in the Talaing history ‘ Khameng,’ probably a corruption 
of the native name Khmer. Cambodia seems to be the Portuguese form of Kam- 
plioutche, which itself is probably derived from Kambauza, the name of an ancieni 
Budhist country of India. All the Indo-Chinese nations have been in the habit 
of calling their cities after famous Indian cities. A portion of the Shan country 
was also called Ivambauza, and the country east of Barnau was named Kosambi, 
which in popular language has been changed to Ko Shan pyi. Yodaya, the capital of 
Siam, is the Indo-Chinese form of the famous city of Kama. 
