his suite
of twenty men were made drunk with rum; the ship weighed anchor; and the
prince, with all his men, were sold as slaves in one of the West Indian
Islands. Here Oroonoko met Imoin'da (3 _syl._), his wife, from whom he
had been separated, and whom he thought was dead. He headed a rising of
the slaves, and the lieutenant-governor tried to seduce Imoinda. The
result was that Imoinda killed herself, and Oroonoko (3 _syl._) slew
first the lieutenant-governor and then himself. Mrs. Aphra Behn became
acquainted with the prince at Surinam, and made the story of his life
the basis of a novel, which Thomas Southern dramatized (1696).

=Orozem'bo=, a brave and dauntless old Peruvian. When captured and brought
before the Spanish invaders, Orozembo openly defied them, and refused to
give any answer to their questions (act i. 1).--Sheridan, _Pizarro_
(altered from Kotzebue, 1799).

=Orpas=, once archbishop at Sev'ille. At the overthrow of the Gothic
kingdom in Spain, Orpas joined the Moors and turned Moslem. Of all the
renegades "the foulest and the falsest wretch was he that e'er renounced
his baptism." He wished to marry Florinda, daughter of Count Julian, in
order to secure "her wide domains;" but Florinda loathed him. In the
Moorish council Orpas advised Abulcacem to cut off Count Julian, "whose
power but served him for fresh treachery; false to Roderick first, and
to the caliph now." This advice was acted on; but, as the villain left
the tent, Abulcacem muttered to himself, "Look for a like reward
thyself; that restless head of wickedness in the grave will brood no
treason."--Southey, _Roderick, etc._, xx., xxii. (1814).

=Orphan of China=, a drama by Murphy. Zaphimri, the sole survivor of the
royal race of China, was committed in infancy to Zamti, the mandarin,
that he might escape from the hand of Ti'murkan', the Tartar conqueror.
Zamti brought up Zaphimri as his son, and sent Hamet, his real son, to
Corea, where he was placed under the charge of Morat. Twenty years
afterwards, Hamet led a band of insurgents against Timurkan, was seized,
and ordered to be put to death under the notion that he was "the orphan
of China." Zaphimri, hearing thereof, went to the Tartar and declared
that he, not Hamet, was the real prince; whereupon Timurkan ordered
Zamti and his wife, Mand[=a]n[^e], with Hamet and Zaphimri, to be seized.
Zamti and Mandan[^e] were ordered to the torture, to wring from them the
truth. In the interim,