Ten Years' Captivity in the Mahdi's Camp 1882-1892
CHAPTER XX.
THE KHALIFA'S TREATMENT OF THE WHITE CAPTIVES.
Description of the prison, or "Saier"--The "Abu Haggar" --The imprisonment of Charles Neufeld--Terrible sufferings of the prisoners--Domenico Polinari--The danger of corresponding with the European prisoners-- Neufeld threatened with death--He is given charge of the saltpetre pits--The fate of Sheikh Khalil, the Egyptian envoy--The Khalifa's treatment of the "Whites"--Exile to the White Nile 344