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Thornburgs & their son & young Lipp came down, also the Murrays and we had a picnic. They all seemed to
enjoy it very much & all rode camels, to their great pleasure. Then back to the camp & to dinner with the

Lipps, after Bridge. The usual large party to Bridge. Quite a pleasant afternoon. Thornburg spoke of
opening oil negotiations & I said on Monday. A bore but has to be done.

Monday 11th April

Police on march so didn't go to Fort. Rather a strong shamaal, quite cool, temp at 7 pm 70. Murray came
round in the morning & in afternoon I went out with him & his wife in HH's launch, they were in another
one, & had chartered a diving boat with divers in order to take a lot of movie pictures of diving. It was quite
amusing except that she wore shorts, presumably nobody told her not to & it was too late to do anything
about it by then. I took three dozen pictures but don't think many will be good. Busy morning, various

people came in. The Murrays came back for tea & stayed on some time so I didn't go to Bridge at Mespers.
HH approved of the appointment of Jones as the Govt doctor.

Tuesday 12th April

Office. Busy morning.

Dinner at Forkers, he showed his movie pictures which I enjoyed very much. The colour ones are excellent.

Wednesday 13th April

Office. Shs Abdulla & Sulman came in, about nothing in particular. Tennis & Bridge, quite a lot of people.

Thursday 14th April