The Cambridge History of India, Vol. IV: The Mughul Period v4.c23.s3.4

v4.c23.s3.4

By 1541 he had annexed the Pegū state. He was able to enter Pegū city without a siege because the Talaings, after suffering several defeats, lost heart, and their king Takayutpi,¹ instead of putting heart into them, took to distrusting his officers and executing them; instead of leading his men to the end, Takayutpi deserted the city and lived in a stockade at Ingabu, Maubin district; a year later he died while hunting elephants and the fishermen there still worship a *nat* spirit called Po Yutpi. Martaban, a thriving port, rich with the accumulated stocks of merchants of many races, gave more trouble; it fought to the end, aided by seven Portuguese ships; these were small craft, manned largely by Eurasians and slaves, and Tabinshwehti drove them off with fire-rafts, while other rafts, with scaffolding higher than the ramparts, were run alongside the fortifications facing the river; the sack raged for three days.²