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        resent any efforts to teach them how.  They wont let him lick an envelope without their permission.  Then Ali bin Hussein with
        draft of a speech to be delivered at the Meglis which we are holding tomorrow, a very good speech.  Afterwards wrote letters
        & read.  Meeting at the Palace in the afternoon all the chief merchants and Seyed Ednan & several religious.  None of them
        suspected what it was about but all approved entirely.  Altogether a great success & I was glad that the Shaikh put Seyed
        Ednan on the sofa next to him - diplomatic.  Afterwards played tennis at Agency.  Quite cold after sunset.



        Saturday [1 October]

        Court.  Very busy day, a lot of cases & letters etc.  One has an endless stream of people all expecting their jobs or cases to be
        dealt with at once.  They dont realise what a lot one has to do.  Went to the garden in the afternoon.  Zayani came to discuss his
        idea of an agricultural concession for ten years on certain crops and a 30 year lease of certain big plots of ground, he means to
        grow potatoes cotton tobacco etc etc as well as fruit grain & vegetables.  It sounds good but needs thinking of.  Dinner at
        Mespers, Bridge.  Parke & Zoumeroff are going on next boat so there wont be 2 fours of Bridge, worse luck.
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