transactions with the Mongols previous to 1281. In that year they relate that a mission . of ten nobles and moo horse came from the Emperor to demand gold and silver vessels as symbols of homage, on the ground of an old precedent. The envoys conducted themselves disrespectfully (the tradition was that they refused to take off
The Palace of the King of Mien in modern times.
their boots, an old grievance at the Burmese court), and the King put them all to death. The Emperor of course was very wroth, and sent an army of 6,000,000 of horse and 20,000,000 of foot (!) to invade Burma. The Burmese generals had their point d'appui at the city of Nga-tshaung-gyan, apparently somewhere near the mouth
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