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Spent most of the morning hearing appeal cases with Sh Abdulla. One hears much of interest & a good deal
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of "low down" on people here over the cases, there is nothing about them that Sh A does not know. We got
most of them finished. Discussing Matems he said they are used for every sort of purpose, for laying out
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corpses, for dinners, readings, meetings for the travellers to stay in, as an example they spoke of Mohd al
Araydh's old matem, a very picturesque place. Thompson came in before the court & afterwards I saw Ahd 91
Effendi & a young Kanor also Holloway's man & Sh Khalifah. Some Omanis have come & are doing stunts I .
like the Dervishes in Cairo used to, sticking nails through their arms, all very well on themselves but they do an
it to other people & one boy treated thus is in hospital.
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Rode after lunch to the Port Fort on the way back Bilal came off & Wadhna ran away, 1 pursued her into
Manama & she was eventually caught & I led her in & returned to pick up Bilal who was not much the
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