Mon Ap 12. [12 April 1909] Left at 6.45. Col. R [Ramsay] appeared
booted and spurred and rode with me to the Mu'addam bridge which I
very much enjoyed. I like him immensely and think very highly of him.
Fattuh recounted to me all the dinner parties they had been to!
Where they dines they sleeps [sic] but they don't have breakfast.
They leave very early in the morning. As we rode along the Sidd the
most furious wind rose - it had been blowing a little in the early
morning. I thought we shd all be blown off the Sidd. One of the packs
was blown round and the animal fell - not down the bank however.
Then came rain. The Tigris lashed into waves. Lunched in wind and
rain by a Chird. A thick haze of wind and rain covered the whole
world, like a thick fog. So we came to the Khan Mushahada at 1.50,
we galopping [sic] on. It was impossible to pitch tents. Fortunately we
got a room in the guard house. The baggage came in about 2.15 and
Fattuh made me most comfortable. Very tired - I suppose from my
cold, but better. [Written at top of page:] Kasim said what was the
good of keeping sheep? in a year like this they wd all die.