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the "Shoreham" at his father's request, quite a pleasant young fellow in the Tank Corps, he is on sick
leave. After the dinner we went into the Agency & had some rum punch as it was very cold. Mrs C
talked very foolishly about slavery knowing nothing about it. I gather the Lochs find her tiresome as a
guest, she rarely gets up before tea time & is very fretful. The SNO is extremely nice, the Shaikh is very
fond of him, quite obviously so, he always beams at him though they don't converse directly.

Friday 2nd Feb

Motored out to the oil camp in morning & down to the Sitrah bridge. A lovely day. In the afternoon we
watched a football match in fancy dress which the Sports Club played. It was quite amusing. James
enjoyed it very much, then to tea at the Agency.