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is going to stay with us as he is going on down the Gulf. I hope she will be a pleasant guest. We have had a
great many visitors lately, very expensive too.

Wednesday [30th January]

Busy morning. Fort. The Shaikh came in to the joint court. I had a lot of people to see and a meeting of
people about making a water channel behind the town, Shaikh Mohammed was there as usual talked a great
deal with very little sense. Abdulla & Sulman looked in too. The Shaikh came in to see me after the court in
a great fuss about the Bahrani business & then as soon as he had left the four leaders asked for an interview
so I saw them. We talked for an hour and a half, they got very excited at times and said that they were
entirely dissatisfied with what we had offered to do for them in our letter, dangerous remarks but kept their