South America - A General History And Collection Of Voyages And Travels - Volume 7 - By Robert Kerr
 -  After this victory the king of Siam marched against the queen of
_Guibem_, who had allowed the enemy to pass - Page 29
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After This Victory The King Of Siam Marched Against The Queen Of _Guibem_, Who Had Allowed The Enemy To Pass Through Her Country; And Entering The City Of _Fumbacar_ Spared Neither Age Nor Sex.

Being besieged in her capital of _Guirar_, the queen agreed to pay an yearly tribute of 60,000 ducats, and gave her son as an hostage.

After this the king of Siam advanced to the city of _Taysiram_, to which place he thought the king of Chiammay had fled, destroying every thing in his course with fire and sword, only sparing the women; but winter coming on he returned to Siam.

On his return to his court of _Odiaa_ or _Odiaz_, he was poisoned by his queen, then big with child by one of her servants; but before he died he caused his eldest son, then young, to be declared king. He left 30,000 ducats to the Portuguese then in his service, and gave orders that they should pay no duties in any of his ports for three years. The adulterous queen, being near the time of her delivery, poisoned her lawful son, married her servant, and caused him to be proclaimed king. But in a short time they were both slain at a feast by the King of _Cambodia_ and _Oya Pansilaco_.

There being no lawful heir to the kingdom of Siam, _Pretiel_ a religious _Talagrepo_, bastard brother to him who was poisoned, was raised to the throne by common consent in the beginning of the year 1549. Seeing the affairs of Siam in confusion, the king of the Birmans, who was likewise king of Pegu, resolved to conquer that kingdom. For this purpose he raised an army of 800,000 men, of which 40,000 were horse, and 60,000 armed with muskets, 1000 being Portuguese. He had 20,000 elephants, 1000 cannon drawn by oxen and _abadias_[26], and 1000 ammunition waggons drawn by buffaloes. The Portuguese troops in his service, were commanded by Diego Suarez de Mello, commonly called the Gallego, who went out to India in 1538. In 1542 this man became a pirate in the neighbourhood of Mozambique. In 1547 he was at the relief of Malacca: And now in 1549, being in the service of the king of the Birmans, was worth four millions in jewels and other valuables, had a pension of 200,000 ducats yearly, was stiled the king's brother, and was supreme governor of the kingdom and general in chief of the army. With this prodigious army the king of the Birmans, after one repulse, took the fort of _Tapuram_ by assault, which was defended by 2000 Siamese, all of whom he put to the sword in revenge for the loss of 3000 of his own men in the two assaults. In the prosecution of his march, the city of Juvopisam surrendered, after which he set down before the city of Odiaa the capital of Siam. Diego Suarez the commander in chief gave a general assault on the city, in which he was repulsed with the loss of 10,000 men:

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