ABSTRACT
Do not imagine that the king of Pego enjoys as great a reputation as the king of Calicut, although he is so humane and domestic that an infant might speak to him, and he the Burmas,” who extended his conquests over Ava, Magoung, Jangomai (Zimm6), the west of Vunan, and other adjoining states. This monarch appears to have been still on the throne when Caesar Fredericke was at Pegu in 1586, and the extract from Patavino’s Geography, quoted on pp. 215-6, gives an apparently authentic account o f the different de pendencies o f the kingdom towards the end of that century. About that time, however, the empire began to decline, and its fall was as rapid as its rise : in 1600, Pegu was besieged by the kings o f Aracan and Toungoo, and its sovereign put to death ; and thirteen years later the King o f Ava was crowned at Pegu, from which period may be dated the dominance o f the Avan monarchy over the lower provinces. See Y u l e ’ s Narrative o f a Mission to the Court o f Ava, pp. 208-213.
