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digestion! It really was an awful party - typical of the Mission! Then we played the usual sort of tiresome
games. Mrs Russell & Mrs Worth both had too much to drink & got very noisy, they stopped off while
motoring from house to house & had some more drinks.

Thursday St Valentines Day [14th February]

Fort. Third & last day of the Municipal Election, but it didn't take very long as there were less voters, foreign
communities only. Very busy morning in the office catching up after three days away from it. The French
sloop came in, there was a great deal of muddle over it & in the first place they did not notify us in proper
time & then as usual, they changed time of arrival. Shaikh Abdulla came to see me & stayed a very long
time, as usual he is complaining of being short of cash. In the evening we went out to a dance at the Jebel