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has got a bad eye & very sorry for himself. An interesting time at Muharraq. The girl's sister confessed
that her husband and one of the brothers had murdered her. They came back from diving one night, came
to the house where the two women were, shut the wife up in a room, killed the girl & then buried her &
went back to the boat & out to the pearl banks. A very interesting case. When we got back we saw the
black slave who corroborrated the return to Hedd for one night. He was left on the boat & did not come
ashore. Worked in office till late & went out to the camp early to be there by 4 to umpire the donkey polo
match. It was quite good. I started on a donkey but found it easier on foot as it was difficult to steer the
donkey. Got rather hot running about so went down to Seddad where I had a bathe & changed & then
returned to camp, missing the baseball which bores me. After dawdling about a long time we had a rather
messy meal of meat & vegetables, sheep cooked whole & carved up. It was not very nice & very
pointless, an ordinary meal would have been as easy, then the movie, "Flying Down to Rio". There were
a few very good lines but it was a silly film, mostly dancing & undressed ... I didn't really like it, the
sound was very bad & they took ages between each part. It finished at 12.30 & then they began dancing.