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Monday 12th February

Fort, decided to try out some men & NCOs for promotion. Discussed the increase in thefts
with .

Office. Shaikhs came round, MA is to discuss a letter from BS in which he said that it was
being put about that he had borrowed money from HH - the Sheikhs thought it was a put up

thing by Abdulla Suliman to damage the Nozaibes. Dr McDowall. Coates, re land disputes
with Sh Abdulla. Busy morning, ABJ re HH appointing heir apparent from Muhariaz. He & I

discussed the procedure & decided who was to witness signature and when & where. He
comes in tomorrow.

H's wife imminently expecting, he persuaded her to go to Jeverin and then

after some days.

Rode, with Gunn, along the shore to Port Fort & beyond, then turned inland & back by the
Evad. Lovely day.

Party at Packers - cocktail dance - from 6.30 - me left at midnight. An enormous amount of
champagne consumed & a good deal of noise, quite funny at times.

Tuesday 13th February

HH called at Agency & we discussed the arrangements for appointing his successor. He

wants a secret arrangement, a document to be drawn up, witnessed & kept in the Bank. He
decided that Narazan was to write it. We had Abdulla b Jahr in & fixed up about it, he
brought the old document 42 yrs ago, appointing him. We read it over. He made a long

speech about S which was mainly aimed against Abdulla.