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Office, saw a good many people, Mohd Divejger about his Minors Dept, Parker as usual about acquiring
some land in Muharraq, Wakelin to hear what Sh A said about the Bahai schoolmaster & an informer of
Mahmood's from Hedd who gave some nice information about smuggled goods by the Saada tribe, a merry
. Went for a ride in the afternoon to the Port Fort. A beautiful day & quite hot in the sun. Bits of green grass
in some parts along the coast. Mrs Leigh said to have arrived a day or two ago, is reported to be short &
dusky, perhaps Levantine - sounds probable. Hick rang up & told me about GP who was quite awful, his one
& only object now seems to be to prevent Hugh Weightman or Haq getting the job after him - he never thinks
of what will be best for the Gulf if any personal reasons come into it. It is certainly high time that he left
here. I scarcely know Galloway, who is going to act for him, he struck me as being rather a surly fellow. GP
wants to get him into the job in order to prevent the others having it.

GP left for India in a foul temper.

Monday 19th February

Red cow served, red bull.

Fort. Lovely day, rode Oleander who was in good form. Court, only a few cases & finished early so took M
Khali out along the road to see about the big widening scheme, HH seemed to be impatient to get started on it