1873.] Sir Arthur P. Pliayre —The History of Pegu. 153 
“ tribute, the black Prince refused to pay it. The king in a rage sends his 
u great favourite Banna, with a powerful army against him. Banna ravaged 
“ the country of Siam, and besieges the Prince in Hudixa, who defended it 
“ so bravely, that Banna being forced to draw off, he fell upon and totally 
“ defeated him. The king sends his brother-in-law with a greater power, and 
“ he receives a greater overthrow ; 200,000 of his men were cut in pieces 
“ with a great number of elephants and horses, many more of both taken. 
“ The black Prince remained victorious, his men were enriched and all en- 
“ couraged to follow their good fortune. The king of Pegu raises another 
“ army of 1,700,000 men, 1500 elephants, 80,000 horses, and all necessaries 
“ proportionable. The command of it he gave to Mapa Raja # his son, with 
“ the title of king of Siam, not doubting of the victory. At the news of this 
“ power, all Siam trembled except the valiant black, now king, who met his 
“ enemy and gave him battle. The two kings encountering on their ele- 
“ phants fought, and he of Pegu was cast dead off his elephant, at which 
“ sight his men fled and the Siamites pursued them a month, destroying the 
“ greatest part of that vast army.” 
This account seems to mix up the three or rather four separate expedi¬ 
tions which we have given from the native histories. The first against 
Yodaya, where, though Bureng Naung was victorious, it was with immense 
loss ; the two expeditions into Leng-dzeng, the last being under Binya Dala 
and both unsuccessful; and that, to put down the insurrection of the north¬ 
ern Shans, under the crown-prince, which was also a failure. 
Some light is thrown upon this period of the history by the narrative of 
Master Ceesar Fredericke, the Venetian, who, as translated in Purchas, states 
as follows :f “ Sion, or Siam, was a great city, but in the year 15G7, it was 
“ taken by the king of Pegu. The number of his army was a million four 
“ hundred thousand men of warre. I was in Pegu six months after his 
“ departure, and saw when that his officers that were in Pegu sent five 
“ hundred thousand men of warre to furnish the places of them that were 
“ slaine and lost in that assault. Yet for all this, if there had not been 
“ treason against the citie, it had not been lost; for on a night there was 
“ one of the gates set open, through the which with great trouble the king 
“ gate into the city, and became governor of Sion; and when the emperor 
“ saw that he was betrayed, and that his enemy was in the city, he poisoned 
“ himself; and his wives and children, friends and noblemen that were not 
“ slain in the first affront of the entrance into the city, were all carried 
* This means Upa Radza—the Yuvaraja of the ancient Hindus,—which was the 
title Bureng Naung conferred on his eldest son. It is equivalent to Ein-Slie Meng of 
the present day. 
f Caesar Fredericke, seems to have been indifferent parts of Pegu during 1507, 
15G8, and 15G9. 
