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of The Burmese were honour-
neutrality. envoys very
ably received, and in 1746 a Siamese embassy had an
warm welcome at Ava. The Siamese
equally envoys
arrived at an opportune moment, for the Peguans, who
had captured Prome in 1744, were marching on Ava.
The arrival of the Siamese envoys was exaggerated into
a that a Siamese was on its to assist
report army way
the Burmese. The and on their
Peguans retired, way
back were attacked and defeated by the Burmese.
Saming T'oh's marriage to a Chiengmai Princess was
his He had another the of one
undoing. wife, daughter
Dala. She that she was
P'ya complained being neglected,
and her father to her husband.
instigated plot against
In 1746 P'ya Dala took advantage of the absence of
Saming T'oh at an elephant hunt to hatch a conspiracy
him. T'oh was forced to retire to
against Saming Chieng-
mai, and P'ya Dala became King of Pegu. The fugitive
King, after a fruitless attempt to regain his throne with
the help of a Chiengmai army, proceeded in 1750 to
to for the aid of Boromokot. The
Ayut'ia, beg King
latter still cherished some feelings of resentment against
Saming T'oh for having dared to suggest a matrimonial
and the luckless was at
alliance, though fugitive first
he was before arrested and cast into
received well, long
prison.
Dala now sent an to demand the surrender
P'ya envoy
of Saming T'oh, but King Boromokot rightly refused
to send away to certain death a man who had sought
his T'oh's
protection. As, however, Saming presence
at seemed to be he was
Ayut'ia likely embarrassing,
on board a Chinese to be taken to China. He
put junk
was, however, let loose on the coast of Annam, and
found his way back to Chiengmai. His subsequent
history may as well be related here. In 1756, hearing