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Went to Mespers thinking to dine there, as usual, but found Spence off to dine at Packs, so went there too & asked for dinner -
which he gave us, Alban & I, & a very good one too.

Sunday [9 October]

Started with Alban at 4 am & motored out to the mountain, Gebel Dukhran, in the middle of the island. Lovely & cool.
Arrived there just after sunrise. Left the car below & climbed up to the top, it took some time. Got a fine view of the whole
island. Afterwards had breakfast in a sort of cave at the top of a wadi & dug up some wild plants for the garden which I saw
there last year. Motored back. Went to the office for a bit until lunch time.

Went to the Palace after tea. The Shaikh loves the idea of his trip. Cool day & a shamaal blowing. The Resident is coming
here again soon. He has chartered one of the B I ships, at £150 a day, so they say & is doing a tour of the Gulf, due here in
about a month. After dinner went down the bazaar with Ali bin Hussein to see about road widening etc. They have done a lot
this month.