CONTENTS
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| CHAPTER VIII | |
| PRISON LIFE | |
| Prayers — Night in the Abou Hagar — Possibilities of escape — News from Egypt — Idris-es-Saier — His methods of extortion — A prison homily — Effectual blackmail | 93-104 |
| CHAPTER IX | |
| MY FIRST CHANCE OF ESCAPE | |
| Ahmed Nur ed Din — His relations with Gabou — We plan an escape — Death of Nur ed Din — My sickness and recovery — Treatment of typhus — I decline to be converted — Meal-time in the Saier — Father Ohrwalder's charity — A famine — The struggle for food — Ministrations of Hasseena — Mutual help amongst the prisoners | 105-119 |
| CHAPTER X | |
| PRISON JUSTICE | |
| Escapes from the Saier — The advantages of matrimony — Tactics of the gaolers — I become doctor to the hareems — — Discipline amongst women prisoners — My first flogging — The gaoler dismissed — Method of flogging — I am flogged again — My mental agony | 120-133 |
| CHAPTER XI | |
| A SERIOUS DILEMMA | |
| Newspaper calumnies — Hasseena's condition — A disputed paternity — Mohammedan laws of marriage and divorce — I decide to claim the child — Idris disputes the claim — A jury of matrons decides in my favour — Birth of "Makkieh" — The Khaleefa's congratulations — Joseppi, the German baker | 134-144 |
| CHAPTER XII | |
| IBRAHIM WAD ADLAN | |
| Friendship with Wad Adlan — His directorship of the Beit-el-Mal — The Khaleefa grows jealous — Adlan thrown into prison — The advantages of trading — Adlan reinstated — I design the Mahdi's tomb — Letters to Mankarious Effendi — The guide Moussa Daoud el Kanaga — Reports from Egypt — Escape of Joseppi — Treachery of spies — Disgrace and death of Adlan | 145-159 |
