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&quot; Market places, called Tokos, are numerous all along Lualaba 

 . . . when the men of the districts are at war, the women take their 

 goods to market as if at peace and are never molested.&quot; 

 And a similar state of things existed in early Rome, accord 

 ing to Mommsen. 



&quot;Four times a month, and therefore on an average every eighth day 

 (nonce), the farmer went to town to buy and sell and transact his other 

 business.&quot; 



Though among ourselves the weekly market in every pro 

 vincial town has come to be largely a place for wholesale 

 transactions, yet dealings in various perishable commodities, 

 such as eggs, butter, poultry, fruit, usually maintain the 

 primitive form. 



But in these days of commercial activity the original di 

 rect relations between producer and consumer are mostly 

 replaced by indirect relations. 



