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Thursday 8th Dec.

Court. Went up to the garden. The last lot of planted seeds doing much better. Evidently others were put in too soon. People
came to Bridge & tea. We had exactly eight, two tables, & quite good Bridge. Had tea in the dining room & played in
drawing room. Dined at the Pennings, quite a party, ten people, the Barretts, ourselves, Spences. Sat & did nothing
afterwards. Thought the fish seemed rather high. A bad dinner too much messed about one didnt know what one was eating.
Mrs Pennings is quite nice & very interested in Arabs. Mrs Harrison, one of the missionaries, was going over to Muharrak
tomorrow for the day & to spend the night there, with Ayesha, taking 3 children & a 4 months old baby. The missionaries do
queer things. Heard of a curious superstition. Its unlucky for a crew if one woman, alone, goes as a passenger on a boat, lately
a mission woman wanted to go to Kuwait by dhow, no other women so she was ordered by the narkuda of the boat to take a
hen along with her as then there would be two females & it wouldn't matter.

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