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ing a short black shirt and a small straw-hat, " siini 
ngawa," their neck adorned with several strings of 
kiingona, or shells, while the women are profusely 
ornamented with strings of glass beads, and wear 
their hair in a very remarkable way, though not in 
so awkward a fashion as Mr. Overweg afterwards 
observed in the island Belarigo. 
On reaching the market-place from the town the 
visitor first comes to that part where the various 
materials for constructing the light dwellings of the 
country are sold, such as mats, of three different 
kinds, the thickest, which I have mentioned above as 
lagara, then siggedi, or the common coarse mat made 
of the reed called kalkalti, and the bushi, made of 
dum-leaves, or " ngllle," for lying upon ; poles and 
stakes ; the framework, " leggera," for the thatched 
roofs of huts, and the ridge-beam or " keskan siimo;" 
then oxen for slaughter, " fe debateram," or for carry- 
ing burdens, "knemu lapteram;" further on, long 
rows of leathern bags filled with corn, ranging far 
along on the south side of the market-place, with 
either " kevva," the large bags for the camel, a pair 
of which form a regular camel's load, or the large 
"jerabu," which is thrown across the back of the 
pack-oxen, or the smaller " fallim," a pair of which 
constitutes an ox-load, " katkun knemube." These 
long rows are animated not only by the groups of the 
sellers and buyers, with their weatherworn figures 
and torn dresses, but also by the beasts of burden, 
mostly oxen, which have brought the loads and which 
