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8 P.M. bus. It was glass calm all night, and quite hot. 
   June 6th- There was a light east wind shortly after dawn; then at 7:10 a sudden gust of dust ushered in the shamal, which soon leveled out to a steady breeze. Sky clear & cloudless. The crew ran the boat up on the south side of west pier, just as the tide started to lower. They did a good job cleaning the bottom of the boat during the low tide. "Swede" went out with the Tarut about 7:30 A.M. and returned at [[strikethrough]] noon [[/strikethrough]] 11 A.M. trolling. The shamal was quite rough and they didn't even get strikes. I took a can of fish into Ras Tanura storehouse where they are loading in rails at a great rate. My boxes will probably soon be covered up. #5 box & tank were brought + #[[strikethough]]6[[/strikethrough]]7 tank which was interchanged with other 8 gal. tank of fish. About 11:30 A.M. Gurley appeared and we looked over the progress of the fish plant which he now expects will be ready by June 15th. We all 3 ate lunch at Ras Tanura, and looked for Mr. Evan's in the p.m.; we finally found him, and found out about the removal of the Emir's party Arab food from the Tarut. I ordered 6 15"-35" galvanized drums for fish specimens. Steel drums rust too quickly. Ahmed lifted my eel pots yesterday, but there was nothing, but when I lifted them there were 2 Hamur [[insert above Hamur]] balūl [[/insert above]] (1-9 1/2") in an eel pot which got wrapped around the pipe line, a red [[underline]]Mullus[[/underline]] and a [[underline]] Plotous anguillaris[[/underline]] in another, mafi in the 3rd one. We went to "Had al Lowh" for the night with both boats. The shamal lightened slightly nearing sunset. The front glass well got shmashed today; so it was repaired by Arab carpenters with ply wood in a passable fashion. After supper, the 2 Abdullas & Yusif Swede and I went ashore and seined with the 100 ft seine. The 2 Abdullahs would bunch up the net and get out aways parallel to the net then they would walk quickly away from each other and straight inshore it worked well. They caught over a half keg or 15 lbs. of fish consisting of 2 [[written above]] species [[/written above]] gerrids (1 10" [[S.L. ?]]),
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several S. siganus, red Mullus, common Mullus, Chelon, [[underline]] Terapon [[/underline]], blunt nose porgies, porgies (silver), 1 sole, atherinids (large), [[underline]]] Sillago [[/underline]], scorpaenids small, spot herring; it was hard to say which was most abundant. Swede and I tried later but we didn't do so well covering the same ground.  [[underline]] Chanos [[/underline]] (with sow[[?]] bag on head) & [[underline]] Apogon thurstoni [[/underline]] were also caught, & [[underline]] Lethrinus miniatus [[/underline]] & shrimp. 
   June 7th- All night and early morning the shamal was very strong and gusty. I set the eel pots overboard last night, and got about 40 [[underline]]Terapon[[/underline]] in the one with a wire funnel, and one or two in the others. The only bait in the wire pot were live hermit crabs. There were also several small [[underline]] Apogon thurstoni[[/underline]], and one [[underline]] Parapercis [[/underline]] 3 fath. of water and much sand bottom. A 25 hook set line baited with fresh bait last night and set near the eel pots yeilded nothing and we lost one hook. Crabs and small fish probably ate the bait off. We got started about 7:45 A.M. bound back for west pier. Weather cloudless sky strong shamal, but less gusty than last night. At West Pier, I tried telephoning Gurley with no success, but managed to get an order in for water (its like pulling teeth only worse). "Swede" did extensive carpentry on the boat making shelves for Ahmed; also the lines and nets were set out to dry. The Fish pier is an ideal place now to dry nets. We spent most of the afternoon trying to get water, the same old story, delay and more delay; finally we got it about 5:30 P.M. The truck never did come to take off the party rations; they probably drove around west pier and never looked farther. We have rather incoherent orders to proceed to Al Khobar and wait. We will go tomorrow, if weather permits. The shamal toned down slightly in the afternoon. We proceeded about 1 1/4 miles north of west pier to a sandy spot. We saw a large turtle at least with a 3 foot shell off the fish pier again. By 7:20 P.M. the shamal had died down to a very light breeze. [[Arabic characters]] Um Rahima, sand hummock near road. After supper we went ashore again to seine with