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1927
Not a busy day. Mail arrived. Wrote letters. Went for a walk after tea.
Monday 20th [June]
Went down to Customs in morning & then had a Court. Read Laurence's book which is extremely good, really very
interesting indeed. One compares the style of his Arabs, who rode 50 miles a day for weeks on end feeding on almost
nothing & fighting whenever they got the chance, with these lazy soft creatures in Bahrain who lounge about in easy going
padded motor cars & who complain of heat or cold or dryness or dampness all day & every day. What a difference. Tennis
at the Mission, some quite good games. A man came & reported that a boy had been killed by a motor car & the car had
gone straight on without stopping.
Tuesday 21st [June]
Meeting of Biladya in morning. More talk about the balcony. Its really comic. They then proposed a reduction in house
rents, "for the benefit of the poor who find it difficult to pay". I suspected this so suggested that only owners of small
