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Thursday, December 3, 1908
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Save that we walked over the Maala wharf and drove down to Tawahi, there was nothing doing today. Mac tells me he expects to go to Karachi on the 20th with Stritt, Naish and Reis gone, Mac & I going this month, Parker going in a month or so more. Crater is becoming depopulated fast. Smith goes home in April, too. Good thing for the steamship business.

I added up all my Bridge to the first of the month, and I find the reserve account is eight dibs and two annas to the bad. That's cheap enough for nearly a year's play, averaging six night a week!

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Friday, December 4, 1908
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Aden is absolutely dead these days. Hardly a stroke of work to do from one week end to another. Mr. Arnold and I did go over to see Bunny in the morning, but Bunny had such a numerous array of accounts which he wanted settled all at once, instead of one after another, that we gave it up in disgust and beat it back here.

I went down to get my passage to Mombasa, but found I could get no tickets until the ship's advices had been received from Suez. I understand she is "full up," but I will have to go on the 10th if I have to sleep on my trunk on deck.