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the measure does not exceed thirty. The price of 
each feruwal is generally three hundred shells ; but 
during my stay it rose to four hundred. 
The market is held on the border of the village, 
on the bleak open ground which extends to the 
south ; but there were very rarely more than 500 
people, and in general scarcely as many as two hun- 
dred, assembled. But it is not to be denied that, 
taking into account the manner of living in these 
regions, a good deal of business is transacted in this 
place ; and, on account of the many strangers who 
visit it, ready-cooked pudding, tiggera, and sour milk 
are offered for sale throughout the whole day. Besides 
salt, cotton strips, dyed cloth, Kola nuts, corn, and 
asses, some copper manufactured chiefly into large 
drinking-vessels is also brought into the market by 
the people of Mosi. However, I do not think they 
manufacture the copper vessels themselves, but bring 
them from Asanti. Copper is worn by the inhabi- 
tants, by way of ornament, to a large extent ; and I 
was greatly amused on observing that some of the 
young girls wore in the long plaits of their hair a 
very remarkable ornament made of that metal, repre- 
senting a warrior on horseback with a drawn sword 
in his hand and a pipe in his mouth ; for, with the 
Songhay people, smoking, although forbidden by the 
present ruler of the western part of the former terri- 
tory of their empire, the fanatical prince of Hamda- 
Allahi, is, next to dancing, the chief enjoyment of 
their existence. Whether these small horsemen worn 
