P’ya Taksin, with his five hundred followers, managed To shake off his Burmese pursuers, and established Himself near Rayong on the east coast of the gulf of Siam. His own fellow-countrymen in that region were at First by no means at all certain whether to regard him as A rebel or a deliverer, but before the fall of ayut ia He had quelled all opposition and was in full control of The Rayong and Jonburi districts.