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Court in the morning but not a great many cases. In the afternoon we all attended the wedding of an Indian (Christian)
telegraph clerk & an Iraki Christian girl, at the mission. Really a very comic show. Crowds of Jewesses came as guests. After
the service, which took 10 minutes, & included singing of tune "John Brown's Body" to a hymn in Arabic - there was a
"reception" at Pennings house - a most lengthy & awful show. Finally got away & motored to Senobis & then to dinner, &
Bridge, at Mespers.

Sunday [5 June]

Customs as usual before breakfast. Settled with Kanoo about some land. In afternoon copied extracts from a book of old
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reports about Bahrain, 60 yrs old, they make a good foundation for a history of this place! Then went out & called on Ah b
Khamis at Senobis, an old Bahraini who had been so much oppressed by the Khalifa that he was made a British subject as a