They began the circumcision, and there were about four hundred. A man would go with his son and brother, and they endured great hardship from thirst and hunger. They stayed for about twenty days.

The river was low, and the water was scarce. They were not able to drink, and they were threatened. So they returned from their wives.

They began the circumcision of these people. A story from Egypt is mentioned here, which lasted for several years. They were circumcised, and they would pay him whatever money he wanted until an incident occurred.

George and William could not pay it, so they were beaten and insulted. In addition to what they suffered from losing their money and their humiliation, they suffered from the pain of their wounds. Added to that was the necessity of polygamy.

They found no escape from it.

The talk is that my two wives were about to give birth when the city of Khartoum fell.

I settled in Khartoum, seeking to reach Khartoum. In the month of Dhu al-Qi'dah in the year...

A Sudanese midwife helped her give birth. I had previously requested that...

And she suspected that I had only come to Khartoum to devise a plot against the Mahdi, and therefore she ordered...

All Egyptians to leave Khartoum and settle in Omdurman, a few days after the fall. My wife gave birth to a boy, whom I named Muhammad Fawzi.

My wife had been pregnant for about ten years, and my mother fell ill.