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Saturday 21st [August]
Court in the morning but as all the people were late I washed it out & put them off a week. They have taken to arriving
an hour after time so I rang brother magistrate, a distant cousin of the Sheikh's, had to sit a long time & wait an hour.
He is an amicable little man of peculiar stupidity, never gives an opinion & always agrees with what I say, altogether a
very suitable person to be a magistrate from one point of view as it means that I decide everything. The Khalifa
family is the Royal Family of Bahrain, & very much so. They are paid allowances by the Govt & do nothing
apparently considering it infra dig to do any work, they are lazy conceited oppressive people for the most part,
living on being royalty.
Sunday 22nd August
No Court, as there were not many cases I put them off till Tuesday. The Captain of the Triad Parry, is staying here
again, since Saturday, I like him more now, but we got very bored by hearing him & Daly talk - endlessly - neither
listening to eachother & each very much laying down the law. All the fuss is absurd. Telegrams continue to flow
rapidly in streams between here & Bushire. Daly wants to send away the whole levy Corps - which I think is quite
absurd, also he has put endless people in jug, because they happen to be friends of some of the criminals. Out here
