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1945
Monday 23rd September
Drove out to the rifle range & saw the police shooting - very badly too, a lovely morning but damp at night.
Court, had what looks like a forgery case, otherwise dull, the Abdu Ali heirs as usual & a theft from the
Gabriels house by his ex servant who looked an awful villain. Unfortunately it was liquor 6 bottles of
whiskey - which surprised me as he looks as if he never drank, also all his papers from Rome etc. Some of ^
the women teachers arrived & letters - at last - from M & J.
Went to the library & removed the the sacking above the windows & then to Sanyan rather hot. Men making
baskets. Haj Ahmed called on me in the garden.
The season of little pilgrimages picnics or pilgrimages to Nebi Saleh & other mosques, bathing, feasting &
stealing dates. Women go for nitha - to get some desire satisfied.
Tuesday 24th September
Fort, the Police all doing musketry at Jafra. Ahmed Omran came in, returned from England via Cairo. Had a *-
talk with him also Muhammed Saleh, both discussed Sh Abdulla b Hamed. HH came & Sh A as usual, he _
stayed a very long time as at the end when he should have gone he started about Zubara. Sh A spoke about
