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Thursday 4 November Temperatures 6h 00 – 15° 12h 00 – 23° 18h 00 – 19°
Cheikh Ali agrees to visit us but cannot come before Sunday. after repair and inventory, we have in working order. 259 shovels 10 shovels with short handle 175 pickaxes + 10 without handles 69 small pickaxes 184 baskets
sent a telegram to Beirut to obtain labels for workmen and objects, which I could not find although I had searched Latakia in every direction. shortage and poor quality are the signs of this year. 1st meal at the camp this evening, the kitchen being now supplied. purchase of bed and making of bedding.
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain