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kings of the empire he had founded. It was again necessary to send an 
army into Leng-dzeng. A pretender had appeared claiming to be the dead 
king Bya-tsetsit, and Ubarit was unable to meet him in the field. The 
Upa Radza set out in October, 1579, and marched to Maingzan where Ubarit 
joined him. The expedition was successful, and the crown-prince returned 
to Pegu in the spring of 1580, bringing some prisoners of importance. 
The emperor had now subdued all the enemies with whom he had 
fought for so many years. Even Leng-dzeng was to a considerable extent 
subject to his tributary king. Instead, however, of resting or granting 
his subjects relief, he turned his attention to Arakan. The king of that 
country, he observed, desired to be independent, contrary to his engagement, 
and it was necessary to coerce him. A large fleet of vessels and boats of 
all sizes were collected, in which an army of eighty thousand men was 
embarked, and the fleet proceeded to a point on the south coast of Arakan, 
where the men landed and marched to Than-dwe (Sandoway) in November, 
1580. The force was commanded by one of the emperor’s sons, who received 
the title of Thiritliu-dham-ma Radza. He entrenched himself at Thandwe, 
and awaited further orders as to an advance on the capital of the kingdom. 
This expedition is noticed by the Portuguese historian, who states that a 
ship belonging to the king of Pegu was loading at Mazulapatan. The 
governor sent some ships to seize it, on what account is not stated. They 
did not encounter it there, but afterwards near the mouth of the river 
Negraes, and there sunk it. Near this, they met the Prince of Pegu with a 
fleet of 1,300 sail, designed for the conquest of the kingdom of Arakan. 
A fight took place, the Portuguese disabled and took some of the enemy, 
but were obliged to withdraw, on account of the great number opposed to 
them, and got into the port of Arakan. The Portuguese then considered 
themselves at war with the emperor of Pegu, which probably resulted from 
his interference with the petty kings of Ceylon. In the native histories no 
notice is taken of this attack on the Burmese fleet. The army sent by the 
emperor seems to have remained inactive at Than-dwe for nearly twelve 
months. In October 1581, reinforcements were sent, but these did not go 
by sea. The emperor’s days, however, were numbered, and before the whole 
of the reinforcements reached their destination, he died very suddenly in 
November, aged sixty-six years, and after a reign of thirty years in Hantha- 
wati. There is a studied obscurity in the native histories as to the lineage 
of Bureng Naung, but as he had in early life married a sister of king 
Tabeng Shwe hti, it is probable that he belonged to the royal family of 
Taungu. 
