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Prince and his were and
Srisup'anma family captured
taken back to A Siamese was left
Ayut'ia. garrison
at Lowek, and Cambodia was for a time placed under a
Siamese Governor.
Military
A number of were back
very large prisoners brought
from Cambodia ; many thousands of Siamese, captured
by King Satt'a on his various marauding expeditions,
were also set free. This supply of man-power was very
welcome to the of who as we have seen,
King Siam, was,
at that time to his northern 1
trying repopulate provinces.
In the same the war with Burma was
year (1594)
renewed. The brain of Nanda Bhureng, whose mental
powers had never been of a high order, had been alto-
dislocated his
gether by repeated disasters, culminating
in the death of the Crown Prince. He all
suspected
those around him of and his sub-
disloyalty, estranged
jects, both Burmese and members of other races, by
committing all kinds of atrocities.
The Peguans had never been at all devoted to Burma.
The successes of King Naresuen encouraged them to
hope for independence. Their efforts towards freedom
led to massacres. The massacres drove numbers of
people away to take refuge in Siam. The refugees

(fe) The history of Cambodia has a fairly full account of these events. The
capture of Pnnce Snsup'anma is mentioned, but it is stated that King Satt'a
and his sons escaped, and their subsequent adventures are described.
(c) Antonio de Morga (Hakluyt Soc., vol. xxxix.) gives a very full account
of events in Cambodia at this period, compiled from the narratives of Spanish
eye-witnesses, who themselves took an active part in the events narrated.
Morga's account agrees in almost every detail with Cambodian history. In
particular, he states that King Satt'a (called by him Prauncar Langara)
together with his eldest son, died at Luang P'rabang in 1596.
King Naresuen's fame gams in lustre by absolving him from the false charge
of having washed his feet in the blood of his fallen foe.
1
Morga relates that many Portuguese and Castilians were among the prisoners
taken. They proved troublesome. One of them, a Dominican monk named
Fray Maldonado, stirred up some sort of disturbance at Ayut'ia. Many of his
accomplices were burnt alive. He himself, with other Spaniards and Portuguese,
escaped by boat. They were pursued by a force of forty armed boats. A fight
took place, which lasted for a week. The fugitives got away, after heavy losses
on both sides. Maldonado died of his wounds.