Other blows until blood flowed from my body. I said, "Gordon has no money, and the government has no money but paper."

After my body was torn, they threw me in prison. I stayed there for three days, during which they would take me out for interrogation and beating every morning and evening.

On the third day, they brought me out of prison, my shoulders hunched, my hands tied. They sent me to my house and found there a man known for his piety and distance from the spoils of war. He brought my belongings and wrote them down on a paper, showing it to me. I found nothing missing from them. Then he said to me, "The visible wealth, whatever I have seized, is nothing compared to what is hidden in the earth." I said to him, "What is hidden in the earth?" He then began to strike me with his sword. I said to him, "You admonish me one moment and threaten me the next, and I am not afraid of anything. I have no wealth other than what I have seized." He then took me and what he had taken from me, including golden and silver ornaments, jewels, and some precious jewelry, to the treasurer.

When he saw me, he said, "How is this infidel still alive?" The prince said to him, "We are delaying his execution until his wealth and the wealth of Gordon and the government become clear to us." Then the treasurer said to that prince, "Did he not have women?" He replied, "He has two Abyssinian concubines. I took them for myself." The treasurer said, "How did you take them before presenting them to me and getting my permission?" The prince replied, "I took them with my own money and do not ask the treasury for their price." He said, "I have blessed you with them and made them yours." He thanked him, and I stood there, my hands tied behind my back.

The treasurer then approached the chests containing my belongings and opened them. Among them, he found trays and sets for coffee and tea made of... in the style of Khartoum craftsmen.