CONTENTS ix

CHAPTER VIII

PRISON LIFE

PAGES 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-i°4

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