He had no sooner entered the room than his eye caught that flash of light from the stone.

"Here's a diamond! here's a diamond!" he shouted in great excitement.

"Has Ali Hafed returned ?" "No," said the farmer, "nor is that a diamond.

That is but a stone." They went into the garden and stirred up the white sand with their fingers, and behold, other diamonds more beautiful than the first gleamed out of it.

So the famous diamond beds of Golconda were discovered.