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3 new street crier, an ice cream seller who calls his ice past the house every day & has a sort of chorus in which

all the children join.
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Saturday 25th May

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Fort. Moving ammunition into the tower to where it used to be. Shaikhs as usual, HH discussed Whos Who
- he had been sent a correction slip. He discussed GP's idea of Bn being a Port & did not approve. Had a
3 long go with M Saleh re members for the Beladya. Richie came in & took movies of M & 1 on the terrace
with the old mohur tree in the background & with Holdstock. M at the Palace all the afternoon, I gardened &
3 three Awali nurses came to call discovering me in shorts, only in the garden. HH said he thought Hay was 10
years older than me, he himself is my age & Abdulla said he was 66. Well preserved at that.
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