Travels in the central parts of Indo-China (Siam), Cambodia, and Laos : during the years 1858, 1859, and 1860 . one occasion he overpowered theirwhole camp, recovering great part of the booty they hadamassed, and finally freeing the country from those bitterfoes, who had brought into it so much desolation andterror. The people, in gratitude to their deliverer, gladlyaided him in his assumption of royal authority. He issuedhis mandates from Bangkok, appointed viceroys, and dis-tributed colonists far and wide for the repeopling of thecountry. Thus, by the end of 1768, he found himselfsovereign o
Travels in the central parts of Indo-China (Siam), Cambodia, and Laos : during the years 1858, 1859, and 1860 . one occasion he overpowered theirwhole camp, recovering great part of the booty they hadamassed, and finally freeing the country from those bitterfoes, who had brought into it so much desolation andterror. The people, in gratitude to their deliverer, gladlyaided him in his assumption of royal authority. He issuedhis mandates from Bangkok, appointed viceroys, and dis-tributed colonists far and wide for the repeopling of thecountry. Thus, by the end of 1768, he found himselfsovereign of all the southern part of Siam and theeastern provinces on the shores of the Gulf. Profiting by a sanguinary war between China andBurmah, he reconquered the northern district of had still to contend with a revolt organised by a princeof the old dynasty, who, pending the struggle with theBurmans, had taken refuge in Ceylon. This, however, wassoon quelled; and two more provinces were recovered,which had taken advantage of the foreign invasion toassert their independence. At the end of three years. Chap. IT. HISTORICAL SKETCH. 91 Phya-Jak was master of the whole of the north, and hadeverywhere re-established peace and order. His dominionbeing now set on a firm foundation, it was a compara-tively easy matter successfully to resist a new attack ofthe Burmans in 1771; and the year following he sentan expedition into the Malay peninsula to take posses-sion of Lagor, whose governor, formerly a vassal of theking, had assumed the sovereignty, and proclaimed Phya-Jak a usurper. The governor, being worsted in severalengagements, took refuge with the chief of Patawi, atown in the peninsula, by whom he was surrendered tothe followers of Phya-Jak. The king himself, meanwhUe,had entered Lagor, made captives of all the governorsfamily, and carried off his treasures. Among his relativeswas a daughter possessed of great beauty: the Kinggave her a place in his harem; and, through her in
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