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over the desert blast furnace. I deposited my gear at the club house, got my banking accounts which including the dastardly Arab duty of $30 (damn them), and also got some hemp from Joe Martin which he had saved for Ahmed for me. I slept and read during the afternoon. I attended the Dhahran fishing club meeting at 7:00 P.M. and they carried on business with Mr. Weber, v.p., presiding apparently they were getting a trolling boat from Bahrain. I delivered my talk at 8 P.M. to about 60 people and boys. I talked till about 8:45 P.M. then questions and then I showed them specimens. Mary Leonardini seemed quite satisfied and Mr. Weber so I guess it went over alright, and the young boys asked quite a few questions. 

July 26- Perfect weather clear sky, clear vision, no wind, and no airplane trip!!! This is the fourth time it has been called off for no good reason at all; I believe they never had any intentions of making good on their promise. I am thoroughly washed up with the whole damn outfit and wish I had asked to go home Aug. 1st instead of Aug. 10th. Also Gurley doesn't think we will make Jez Jenal before the 10th, well I just don't give a damn. If I can find that porpoise and shark skeleton on Chaschase Island in the next day or two I will be satisfied. They won't fix the row boat, make oarlocks, keep the boat supplied, check the raido, or fix the charge motor; just nothing gets done. Mr. Feltman helped me check out at the carpenter shop about my boxes and they will start when I bring in the old box. We also went out to the plant and I wrapped the fish collection. This afternoon I sounded out my last nights talk on the typewriter 4 pages

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July 26 & 27 - letter to Lucile    127

and 4 copies.  I also started the other day my box invoice.  I got one letter from Lucile this morning and 2 this afternoon, and she had only received 2 letters from Jidda at that time, July 17.  I went to the movies tonight and saw the Bachelor and the Bobby soxer Cary Grant, Myrna Loy, and Shirly Temple (who is a very pretty young lady now).  At one disgusted moment Cary Grant was packing his trunk to fly to Africa and then he told the older man near him and then may be Arabia.  The older man said "I think you are making a great mistake", and that of course brought the house down, it was so apropos.
July 27 - Fair, hot, and hazy today.  I got my box of Jidda fish hauled over to the carpenter shop to raise the lid higher; I also got my tank of formalin from the boat, and headed for Dhahran on the 1:30 bus.  We made it in 1 hour and 5 minutes a record for me.  I drove the last half because the Arab almost fell asleep driving.  I got the same room from housing, and paid my camera duty at the bank in ruppees.  Then I went to see Jim Stewart to check over my list of additional fish names from the Persian Gulf.  I also noted a saw from a sawfish which was given to George Rentz from an Arab at Al Khobar.  It was 47 1/2 inches long with 32 teeth on each side.  He also had a 5 inch ostrich egg from the desert.  He also had a record of an ostrich being shot near Trans-Jordan.  I never even knew there were ostriches in the Arabian desert.  I also met Joe Smith from Hof[[strikethrough]]t[[/strikethrough]]ūf who seems to be a nice fellow and is starting an agricultural experiment in Hof[[strikethrough]]t[[/strikethrough]]ūf the biggest oasis and date gardens in Arabia.  He wants me to look over the local fresh water fish situation.  We will leave the day after tomorrow at 7 A.M. by car.  It is about 80 miles quite a ride! But it sounds interesting.  Our everlastingly post 

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looks like he spells it "Shirly Temple" vs "Shirley Temple"