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Court in the morning during which we got a wire from Brenenfeld sent while passing over Kuwait. M & I motored out to
Gedhafs & called on Seyed Ednan. He had moved down to his lower Meglis. Very pleasant and sensible. He is the cleanest
Bahraini I have ever seen, most of them are extremely dirty but his house is always clean.

Sunday 30th October

Went out hunting with the Shaikh on his island. Had an early breakfast. Motored out to Budeya. Waited there some time
talking to the Dawasir Shaikhs. They are all squabbling with eachother as one party wish to come back and the others are
trying to prevent them. Went across in the Shaikh's launch, a long way round to the other side of the island. Siwa, my dog,
was very naughty. As soon as we got ashore he ran away & went straight for some young gazelles which the Shaikh kept in a
shed there & damaged one so badly that it had to be killed. Really very annoying as the Shaikh is so keen on hunting & buys
gazelle to send out there to shoot. Had quite good hunting & brought back 4 hares & a flamingo. The Spences were here when
I got back also Keith, the RAF man, who has come here to take photographs. He has a conceited manner but not as bad as he
sounds.

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