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are to carry back their masters to their distant dwell- 
ing places ; then follow the camels for sale, often as 
many as a hundred or more, and numbers of horses, 
but generally not first-rate ones, which are mostly 
sold in private. All this sale of horses, camels, &c, 
with the exception of the oxen, passes through the 
hands of the dilelma or broker, who, according to 
the mode of announcement, takes his percentage from 
the buyer or the seller. 
The middle of the market is occupied by the dealers 
in other merchandise of native and of foreign manu- 
facture, the " amagdi " or tob from Uje, and the k6re, 
or rebshi ; the farash, or " fetkema," and the " sel- 
lama," the people dealing in cloths, shirts, turkedis, 
beads of all sizes and colours, leatherwork, coloured 
boxes of very different shape and size, very neatly 
and elegantly made of ox-hide. There are also very 
neat little boxes made of the kernel, or " nage," of the 
fruit of the dum-tree. Then comes the place where 
the kombuli disposes of his slaves. 
There are only a few very light sheds or stalls 
("kaudi"), erected here and there. In general, 
besides a few of the retail dealers, only the dilelma 
or broker has a stall, which, on this account, is 
called dilellam ; and, no shady trees being found, 
both buyers and sellers are exposed to the whole 
force of the sun during the very hottest hours of the 
day, between eleven and three o'clock, when the 
market is most full and busy, and the crowd is often 
so dense that it is difficult to make one's way through 
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