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A cool night & pleasantly cool day but a lot of flies. Sailed over to Om al Nasan & spent some time looking
at the gardens & bathing, dales very poor & the whole place looking uncared for & dry. The man who
looked after it died & his son, too young to be much use, is there. Had a lot of fruit, figs dates & melons.
Took a long while getting back & got very sun burned. Slept after lunch till tea time & then settled about r
colours for some curtains to be woven. Sailed back in good time, tide & wind both favourable. A Kerim
came in to report success over catching a boat full of grain being taken from one of G.M's barges unloading a :r
ship. It has been going on on a large scale.

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