“ ‘One runs no risk in doing good offices to persons of my country,’ replied the Monomotapan, ‘pray behold.’⁠—He forthwith gave Amina a complete proof of such surprising merit, that from that moment you lost in her eyes half the value she put on you. Well! long live the Monomotapans.”

Alibeg and Nasses made long faces, and look’d on each other without uttering a word: but when they had recovered from their astonishment, they mutually embraced; and casting disdainful looks on Amina, they ran prostrate themselves at the Sultan’s feet, and thank him for having undeceived them with regard to this woman, and preserved their lives and reciprocal friendship. They arrived just as Mangogul, return’d to the favorite, was relating Amina’s history to her. It made Mirzoza laugh, but did not augment her esteem for the court ladies and the Bramins.