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town at nights as the people are rather nervy & all the bad hats have taken the opportunity of being up to
mischief. Robbers broke into a house opposite the fort & shot the owner in the leg, quite poor people too & a
great shame. I went along to the place before breakfast & heard all about it. Imported on Haji Abbas to take
temporary charge of the police. There is decidedly "great apprehension" in the town, as Daly said in his telegram to
Bushire. Prideaux at Bushire is like old Cadiz, never does a thing on his own initiative & tries always to make
someone else responsible.

10th Tuesday [August]

Long court before breakfast as I am taking some of the Agency cases too. The Triad, with the Senior Naval Officer,
Parry, is now going to come. Daly is very pleased, & also rather gratified by getting a wire from the Viceroy enquiring
after him & sending condolences to the families of the men who were shot. The officers from the Cyclamen came
ashore in the evening & played tennis, quite pleasant men. As usual their launch was out of order so they stayed an
awful long time. Quite cool weather.

Wednesday [11th August]

The down mail arrived with Stewart-Horner Chief Secretary from Bushire, a conceited little rat, but quite intelligent.
Went to the office & the Fort, everything quite normal at the latter. Daly wants to remove the whole Levy Corps & to