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Had lea with Kozaibu in his garden, a pleasant place called Tinar, GP. Hick. Bird & Gee. G.P. didnt talk
& looked very cross. Good tea but lots of flies, they have a nice garden house among the trees.

Dinner at Awali to meet the oil magnates, quite interesting, a huge crowd of men and M & Mrs Godfrey.
Dinner copious & not very good, much talk about food, my neighbour, President of Texas Oil, seemed
intensely interested in what he ate. Many of them looked dyspeptic. Interesting conversation about
Russia. Heron invited M & I to take the Shaikh to USA - a firm offer. Dirty stories after dinner not even
amusing, GP's among the worst. He cheered up after some drinks. I talked mostly to Heron, who I like,
& to Mac Somebody - Texas - who I didnt care for. The big business men are not outwardly
prepossessing.

Monday 12th March

All the morning in court, till 2pm. Most of the time spent on the Saada smuggling case, about people in
Hedd. An interesting case. The people bought 18 worth of piece goods to smuggle out of Bahrain from
Mohd Kamal & didnt pay, then denied buying it.

M spent the day with her teachers & school girls at Yatiem's garden at Budega, lunch & then picnic, I
rode over from Sehlah to meet her & on the way ran into a swarm of locusts, most unpleasant, 1 have
never ridden through one, the ponies didnt like it at all. Drove back with M, G.P. came in before dinner
to talk about the church, which I am getting rather tired of, also ,about the Persian bank, which he brought