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being of the party made it decidedly heavy. The Resident has an awkward manner. I fancy he is shy, but
the result appears that he is boorish. After quite a fairly good dinner we played gramaphone records in
the drawing room, putting on a lot of the old ones in the cupboard. I had a long talk with him about the
naval base business & told him the result of my talk with the Shaikh. I told him that the Shaikh had
enquired whether he was to be paid any rent for having the navy here - which rather startled him - really
the Shaikh was quite pleased over the whole matter and not much interested in the buildings which we are
going to do for the navy.
Thursday [4th April]
