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Thursday 9th August

1 st of Ramadhan

Quite pleasantly cool weather again, rode in the morning but not to the Fort as they only do I hour parade & i
that from 6-7, requires some thinking as to how to plan. Its some years since I was here in Ramadhan.
Looked in on Bird for a few minutes & went to the customs where I spent a long time. Everything very :i
quiet. After lunch drove to Budega, took Mazooh Musa a bit off colour. A slack wind so took some time
crossing. Delightfully cool, had a long bathe in the sea & then in the spring & went early to bed sleeping i
under the portico. The garden looks quite dried up.

Friday 1 Oth August

At Jidda, wrote letters & bathed, a pleasant cool day, very little sun owing to mist.

On getting home heard on the wireless the news that Japan was asking for peace. Very sudden & to me
unexpected. I find it difficult to become very excited.