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Fort. The Shaikh came in for a Joint Court, they sent over for me to deal with a case, one in which a man
was attacked on the Rafaa road, an old form of confidence trick. One man persuaded him that he could
buy some gold cheaply at Rafaa, the victim produced money & the other fellow too, on the way out the
other fellow met a friend who joined them & in a lonely part of the road the two attacked the victim &
beat him severely, taking the money. The Shaikh came in & discussed various matters, I told him about
his insignia and as I knew he said he wanted to receive it from the King not from the Viceroy. Drove out
in the evening, then we went over to the Holmes & M said good-bye to them & then we dined with
Davies. One of the sloops is in the new anchorage, three came in but two went off again.

Thursday 11th April