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Saturday 17th October

Fort - office. HH for a short time & Sh A. HH going to send B Saud princely gift of 50 camels & 15
horses - but mainly because the camels are too expensive & useless & the horses dud. Lunch at Jufair
by SNO, very pleasant party & excellent lunch.

N & Hills to dinner. Bridge.

Sunday 18th October

Sh A called & various people came in.

W & Bridgeman came in after tea, a pleasant interesting man. TTs to dinner. Some local interest at
references to Bn in radios saying that place full of American troops & all under control of
American & Brit military Governors

Monday 19th October

Court till 12, dull cases. Noticed beggars at Biladya Garden in many cases well dressed &
undeserving. M at the school.

Muharraq pm. Chase & Blue came in. Dined at Agency to meet Bridgeman, found him very
interesting, he discussed oil & various oil negotiations & said how very angry all at home had been
because F Holmes was refused permission to come out here some years ago. I always did think it was
a foolish thing to do, Fowle was PA at the time.

Tuesday 20th October