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was invisible. Davies told me that he hoped there would be 5 oil boats in August - but not big ones, it
does look as if they had got a market somewhere.

Sunday [14th July]

Office & Court. The new Kadi came to see me, I always disliked him but we have nobody better, in the
meantime the Agency has ordered investigation into an estate case conducted by Sh Abdulla who was
guardian for a child & widow and evidently found about #600 in gold soverigns that he just took himself.
Three men came & gave evidence that they dug up the money in a house and handed it over to Sh
Abdulla by his orders. The Shias are very excited & all say that he went off so suddenly because he knew
that people had found out about the money - a few days before unaware of the case I had written to him