IN THE MARKET 109 



Just as I took the photo, a dispute about a donkey 

 had been settled, and the successful litigant was striding 

 off with the animal, while another case about some 

 grain, in which a priest in the white turban was a 

 witness, was being heard at the other tribune. The 

 photo on p. 107 shows the arrangement of the "stalls." 



Having dismounted — -for no one may ride in the 



Tribunes of the Justices of the Market. 



market — and handed your beast over to the syce to 

 take to a particular tree, which by custom has become 

 the rendezvous for ail the servants from the British 

 Agency, you plunge into a busy and odoriferous crowd. 

 The sellers of each commodity are always to be found 

 congregated on the same spot ; for instance, on the 

 outskirts, near the Nagadi Ras, are tethered the bullocks 

 for draught and slaughter, milch cows, and little flocks 

 of sheep and goats. 



In the picture on p. 1 1 1 a man who has purchased a 

 sheep is leading it away by a fore-leg, while the head of a 

 Galla girl in charge of the flock, just visible in the fore- 

 ground, shows how the young women dress their hair. 



