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new street crier, an ice cream seller who calls his ice past the house every day & has a sort of chorus in which
all the children join.
Saturday 25th May
Fort. Moving ammunition into the tower to where it used to be. Shaikhs as usual, HH discussed Whos Who
- he had been sent a correction slip. He discussed GP's idea of Bn being a Port & did not approve. Had a
long go with M Saleh re members for the Beladya. Richie came in & took movies of M & I on the terrace
with the old mohur tree in the background & with Holdstock. M at the Palace all the afternoon, I gardened &
three Awali nurses came to call discovering me in shorts, only in the garden. HH said he thought Hay was 10
years older than me, he himself is my age & Abdulla said he was 66. Well preserved at that.
Monday 27th May
Fort
