CONTENTS.
INTRODUCTION
The calumnies of critics - My female slave-Real object of my journey - Preliminary arrangements - General Stephenson's letter
Chapter I
I START FOR KORDOFAN
Engagement of guides - A neglected warning - Hasseena accompanies the party - Dervishes reported on the road - Nonarrival of Hogal - Dervishes sighted at Selima Wells
Chapter II
BETRAYED BY GUIDES
Different routes over the desert - A quarrel amongst the guides - Scouts sent out - Hassan convicted of error - Zigzagging in the desert - A council of war - Surprised by the dervishes - The fight - Taken prisoners
Chapter III
IN THE HANDS OF THE DERVISHES
Conference of the Emirs Farag and Hamza - Halt for the night - Baggage looted by dervishes - The Emirs confiscate all treasure for the Beit-el-Mal-Cross-questioned on my letters - Called a Government spy - Tortured by dervish guards - Rescued by Hamza and reserved for Wad en Nejoumi
Chapter IV
ARRIVAL IN DONGOLA
Display of dervish horsemanship - Flogging among the Ansar Hasseena is searched - Insults of the rabble - I am brought before Nejoumi - I declare myself a merchant - Evidence of a Christian girl-convert against me - Execution of fourteen Arabs of the party - I am re-examined and sent to the Khaleefa
Chapter V
THE REAL HISTORY OF THE CAPTURE
Extracts from newspaper and official accounts-The antecedents of the guide Gabou - Dissensions in the Kabbabish tribe - Gabou schemes for his own section-Hassan's part in the matter - Gabou reveals the plot to Nejoumi and enlists Hogal on his side - The Emirs prepare to intercept me - Capture of the caravan-Hogal's deceit and its excuse
Chapter VI
DONGOLA TO OMDURMAN
Preparations for the journey - Nejoumi's friendly disposition to the Government-His loss of faith in the Mahdist movement - Why the guide Amin was executed - Horrible death of an old Arab woman-In the market-place of Omdurman - First meeting with Slatin-I am chained and tortured-I defy the Khaleefa-A mock execution-The Khaleefa is merciful-Slatin intervenes-Letter to Mankarious Effendi - Imprisoned by Slatin's advice
Chapter VII
THROWN INTO PRISON
Methods of shackling-My first night in prison-Hasseena sent to the head-gaoler's hareem - Mahmoud Wad Said - Ajjab Abou Jinn - The three sons of Awad el Kerim - Sheikh Hamad El Nil - Ahmed Abdel Maajid and his bride - Lessons in Mahdieh -I visit Khartoum in chains-Again before the Khaleefa - My chains removed
Chapter VIII
PRISON LIFL
Prayers - Night in the Abou Hagar-Possibilities of escape-News from Egypt - Idris-es-Saier - His methods of extortion - A prison homily - Effectual blackmail .
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
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
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
Chapter XII
IBRAHini 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
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Chapter XIII
THE TRUE HISTORY OF MY ATTEMPT TO ESCAPE
Letters of the German Consul and my manager to Mankarious - Kanaga's visit to Cairo-He receives a letter to Slatin - He is captured at Berber and turns back-The War Office letter to my wife - My answer to calumnies
Chapter XIV
A PRISONER AT LARGE
Belief in evil spirits - Shwybo as an alchemist-He is flogged for his pains-I am told to make saltpetre-Released from my fetters - The gunpowder factory at Halfeyeh - Death of Makkieh - I am transferred to Khartoum - Our gunpowder a deliberate failure - Visits of Father Ohrwalder - News of his escape
Chapter XV
DIVORCED AND MARRIED
Hasseena's thievish propensities - I am compelled to divorce her - The Khaleefa finds me a wife-I forestall his good offices - Umm es Shole-Mohammedan divorce and re-marriage - A further dilemma-The second child dies - Hasseena proves irreclaimable
Chapter XVI
HOPE AND DESPAIR
Mankarious' first envoy returns - Arrival of second envoy-Rossignoli's guide Abdallah - Projected method of escape - Abdallah's treatment of Rossignoli-Slatin escapes - My chains redoubled - The Khaleefa's fury - Slatin's reputation amongst the Mahdists - His letter read to the Muslimanieh - Confiscation of his wives and property - My deliverer returns - I am again in the Saier
Chapter XVII
A NEW OCCUPATION
Nahoum Abbajee engages me - Emptiness of the treasury - Unsatisfactory state of the currency - I am transferred to the arsenal - I design blocks for the Mint - We do great damage - The Khaleefa's buried treasure
Chapter XVIII
MY SECOND IMPRISONMENT
Idris a reformed character - He ensures my kind treatment - Fauzi's first night in prison - Kadi Ahmed's captivity - His death by starvation - Death of Wad Zarah - Letters from Europe - My replies - My reflections in prison
Chapter XIX
RUMOURS OF RELIEF
Khartoum again - Thoughts of Gordon - At work in the arsenal - Extracting precious metals-Chemical experiments-The troops advancing-1 invent a powder-mill - Its manifold defects - I scheme to gain time - Wholesale destruction of metal - Repairing a steamer - My letter to Onoor - In a fever for news
Chapter XX
PREPARING TO RECEIVE THE GUNBOATS
In the Saier as a visitor - I send intelligence to the English - Anxiety amongst my circle - Embassy from Abyssinia - The Khaleefa's reply - Mahmoud disobeys orders - Defeat of Osman and Mahmoud at the Atbara - Manufacture of torpedoes - I decline to assist - My chains redoubled - The torpedoes explode - I become a centre for Government sympathizers - Frustrating the mines
Chapter XXI
NEARING THE END
Conflicting rumours - Appeals to prophecy - I suggest a night attack - I send more information to the army - Mad struggle with a gaoler - Negotiations with Idris - The Khaleefa sallies out - The gunboats open fire - I go mad - Arrival of fugitives - The riderless horse - The Khaleefa's despair
Chapter XXII
AT LAST
Threats of the prisoners - The routed army in flight - Macdonald's brigade - Illuminating the Ratib - Soudanese sang-froid - Sheikh ed Din repulsed - Attack upon Macdonald - Destruction of Yacoub - Flight of the Khaleefa - His narrow escape from the Sirdar - The Sirdar enters the prison - We meet - The head-quarters' mess - Mr. Bennet Burleigh - My German tongue forsakes me
Chapter XXIII
THE SIRDAR AND SAVAGE WARFARE
The looting of Umdurman - Soudanese troops to the rescue - Genial horseplay - A war correspondent's article - The Sirdar errs in giving quarter - Lex talionis - The ferocity of wounded dervishes - No succour desirable - A challenge to correspondents
Chapter XXIV
BACK TO CIVILIZATION
High hopes - Disillusionment - Attitude of the War Office - I am forced to defend myself - Newspaper calumnies - The News Agency representative - A good Samaritan - Sir George Newnes
Chapter XXV
HOW GORDON DIED
Conflicting accounts - A hero's death-Hope deferred - Gordon's last night - Value of my testimony - Father Ohrwalder's evidence-" Ten Years' Captivity" criticized - Justification of Gordon - The trader as missionary-A tribute to Gordon
APPENDICES
• I. Hassan Bey Hassanein
• II. Orphali
• III. Letter dictated by the Khaleefa to General Stephenson
• IV. Ibrahim Pasha Fauzi--Gordon's favourite officer
• V. Ahmed Youssef Kandeel
• VI. The Soudan : its Past, Present, and Future
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