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well arranged & cool on the roof. These Arab youths & the children too
have absolutely no sense of shyness. Howes & Metcalfe present, the
latter outwardly bored & not very well mannered.

Saturday 31st August

Fort.

Shaikhs came in.

Cinema, rotten film, left before it was over.

Sunday 1st September

Lipp called.

Snow for some time about hospital staff.

Went to Budega. Cattle looking very fit, Lipp says too fat.

Monday 2nd September

Fort, very busy morning as various matters to deal with, the regular
police are coming back & the Specials are taking over.

Mohd Ali Qainal came in. Most of the morning at the Court, had a meeting
with the sunni Kadis, one of them just like the sheep in Alice in
Wonderland, mentally & physically. They were were very stupid &
extremely obstinate, the younger one became shrill with annoyance, his
voice rises to a falsetto when excited.