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