EXPLANATION OF PLATE XUV. 



Scai.es in use in Fort Stedman Bazaar ; February, 1917. 



Fig. 1. — Scales used for weighing tobacco, suspended from the horizontal twig of 

 a bamboo under an umbrella. 

 ,, 2. — Scales used for weighing vegetables, suspended from an oar fixed in a 

 slanting position to an upright bamboo, to which an umbrella is also 

 fastened. 

 ,, 3. — Scales used in weighing small dried fish in a temporary shed made of 

 oars and mats. The scales are suspended from an oar. fixed horizon- 

 tally. The large basket in the foreground was filled with small 

 dried prawns of the genus Caridina. The small basket beside it was 

 used in measuring out the prawns. 



