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Publications. 1 don't ٦o if the Miislry has done, they may hae done in the yearly
reorts.

٨ : o tell ٤٥ abont yor digging. e‫ﺍ‬Ha you clibited here in Balrmin

B : We did one in 196. We held a٦ ehibition for hat e found. t as ery good
year hen e found our first seals and there ere other things of imortance. We
held the ehibition in schools and no that ousif A Shirai as inoled in
heling us to reare the ehibition he may be able to remember better than me.

A : n hicl schools

B : n Manama.

A : Did yo gie lectures in schools

B : o. thin e gae a lecture each year in the Society but not in the schools. We
ere there ith the ehibition of course Peole came and e could anser their
questions. The ehibition as there for three days and the ruler came to see it
robably in the first cday.

A : Do you hae a lenlfet abot it

B : o. Again it is ossible to be reorted in the Baco nesaer. Baco at that

itme roduce a eely nesaer, not only for the nes of their on comany but

the nes of eerything in Bahrain. A]MA as the Arabic nesaer but also there

as an English nesaer. thin it as called BAPCO nes. t is ossible that they

menitoned something about that ehibiiton.

A : Mr. Bibby lense tell me about Sh. Salnnan

B : Sh. Salman. es, hat can tell you about him. Well. He as the first of course
ho gae us money to start or here and that because he as not only interested
in the history of his on country. thin he had not been the ruler of Bahrain he
ould be a ery good archaeologist Of course, e met him officially in the audience,
here he as alays interested in questioning us about hat e ere doing. But
remember that he had gien us the ermission to go anyhere e ish in the lsland.
And htat e assumed that include the southern half of the lsland of ihs on hunting
lace, e ent don there ery often to loo for stone age objects. remember one
day e droe there in our car and e al oer the desert to loo for objcest and
e suddenly came oer a small hill. There as a small building and in rfont of it
there ere four cars. Well e ere not sure ho they ere but they ere ery
imortant eole so e hurriedly ent bac don the hill so in order not to disutrb
them, but they must had seen us because shortly afterards one of the rule'rs

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