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their way from Agency where they had an interview with Loch about having a cinema at oil camp & other
matters. The tanker arrived at outer buoy & in to tak the oil tomorrow, awkward as Steele & the Hams have
a party, a motor paper chase. Saw very queer phenomenon at 11 pm, the moon, ten days old, had a clear
reflection of itself two moons. I though I must be seeing things so got M to come & look. It was really very
queer.

Friday 11th [January]

Very cold day. Tennis at the Agency. Too cold for enjoyment, played a little squash. Motored off to Sitrah
in the morning, hung about the oil tanks for a long time and then sealed up all the valves with Steele. the
tanker is a big ship, very different from the first boat which came here. Quite a lot of the oil coy people were