/.V THE MARKET 



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

 had been settled, and the successful litic;ant was striding 

 oH 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." 



Havincj dismounted — for no one mav 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 all the servants from the liritish 

 xAgency, 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. 



