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Davenport Jones came to see me in a slightly hysterical state with complaints against delay of
the building of the hospital & various rows about Dr McDowall. Went out with Vallance in the afternoon,
fort, Idari, hospital & pier, & then bathed at Sanyab.

Wednesday 21st June

Byard came in the morning & met Black & then discussed educational matters as the Company
is concerned. No definite news of HW's return & Fowle coming on 26th, I have offered to put him up.
Bridge, Vallance & Byard stayed on for dinner, the latter is remarkably dull & hardly educated.

Thursday 22nd June

Fort. Coates came up & tried out a rifle. The horses did a little jumping, not very well.

Saw Hussein Yateem about his journey to USA. Steele came in about housing questions etc.
Vallance spent a long time with me & stayed to lunch - at 2.15 I felt I had to invite him - he is vague about

time. He left, by air, later on in the day. Went out to dinner with Lipps & to the cinema, an amusing English
film, a farce. Then back to the Lipps where we sat & talked, Deans and Maconnels. A pleasant evening.
Went to see Marchant before dinner.

Friday 23rd June

Very lazy day, wrote letters all the morning & in evening drove out to Budeya to see the new
ponies which are quarantined out there as they all have colds. Dinner at the new house of a Hedji
Merchant, a nouveau riche who has made money out of Govt & Shaikhs, a very handsome dinner, about