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1935

Wednesday 28th [November]

Fort - Office. The Shaikh sent us in some bustard, he has been very generous with them lately. Tennis party
in the afternoon, not many people probably owing to dance at the oil camp in the evening. My new car has
arrived but I could not use it as the battery was being changed. Motored out after dinner. The dance was in
the mens dining room at the camp, a great big hall, rather bleak & very cold. There seemed to be crowds of
people & lots of new women, everybody was there, it was a Thanksgiving Day eve party! Some of the
women were simply awful. The music was a wireless gramaphone, good but poor tunes. I danced a good
deal. We stayed till about midnight & then drove home. The party was quite quiet while we were there but
probably got rough later on. Only two or three of the oil Coy women are possible, the rest are quite awful,