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Saturday 2nd October

Did nothing in particular all day, did some painting & gardening &
mooched about. Drove to Idari & Sansari in the evening.

Sunday 3rd October

Office. Saw various people, Dixon, Hutchings, Jabr Msellim who said how
good diving had been & in spite of a drop in price they had lately gone
up again, a Seyd of Hedd, son of old Kadi Ali b Hassan. Not much doing,
had a clear up of the rubbish in the offices & discovered a lot of old
useless & some useful junk. Wakefield expected but didnt arrive as no
aeroplane. Quite hot weather but not very damp. Hickenbotham arrived.

Monday 4th October

Fort. Meant to go to court but HH came in & stayed a long time.

Tuesday 5th October

Meeting to discuss date prices for Bn crop which lasted for most of the
morning. Afterwards had a talk with Smith.

T.H came in, Wakefield was coming but asked him to dinner tomorrow
instead. Dinner with the TTs & to a cinema.