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Bahrain to me - interesting. I hear Abdulla bin Jabr is going to be married to Haji Seggar's youngest
grand-daughter aged about 14. She will be married at the school. Went out with Davies to Rafaa to see
the line for the telephone & then went to Jufair & afterwards looked in on Mrs Holmes & stayed there till
dinner time. The wireless was very good, it prefers dry weather, I think.

Friday 21st June 1935

Went down bazaar, walked round awhile, saw nothing of interest, then had a look at the new road which
is being made to Jufair to avoid the Palace & the Kozaibia houses. Metcalfe asked me to play tennis at
Agency, they have now covered the court with juss as the mud was a complete failure, I doubt if juss will
be any use, refused as I dislike being asked at such short notice, also I consider they should have a regular