18 Cold morn. Stinging sun. Raw wind at 10 a.m. Light breezes during day.
19 Kazeh. Cold morning. Stinging sun.
20 Thermometer at 6 a.m., 67°; at 12, 83°; at 6 p.m., 80°. Nothing remarkable, but cold E. wind.
21 Thermometer at 6 a.m., 66°; at 12, 83°; at 6 p.m., 78°. Same remark.
22 Thermometer at 6 a.m., 63°; at 12, 83°; at 6 p.m., 78°.
23 Thermometer at 6 a.m., 64°; at 12, 80°; at 6 p.m., 78°. Weather the same. Air exceedingly dry. At dawn a cold W. breeze that chills the blood. About 10 a.m. changes E.
24 Thermometer at 6 a.m., 66°; at 12, 86°; at 6 p.m., 80°. Raw and violent E. wind, which causes abundant sickness. Day clear till 1 p.m., then cloudy.
25 Thermometer at 6 a.m., 67°; at 12, 87°; at 6 p.m., 82°. Clouds from E.; sometimes clear away at sunset; sometimes last all night. Invariable cloud-bank of purple nimbus in W.
26, 27 On both these days tourbillons, or devils, of light dust, filling houses.
28-31 Too sick to observe.