In a Native Caravan 
pointed by Kumee and represented his authority. 
Three times a week, about twenty thousand or 
more people assembled in this market-place to 
buy and sell, or to have a good time generally. 
Fast young men with a company of admiring 
followers were displaying their fine new clothes 
by going from place to place amidst the noisy 
throng, and others were drinking and dancing 
and firing guns. Under the shade of the trees 
many others, generally the older men and 
strangers sat and gossiped while they contem¬ 
plated the stirring scene around them. When 
night came, thousands of little lamps twinkled in 
rows over the whole market. The number of 
articles of native product may be imagined by 
what 1 have already said about their farming and 
manufacturing. Besides live poultry and the flesh 
of domestic animals, the meat market contained 
the flesh of many wild animals. In other parts 
could be found the pelts of leopards, antelopes 
and monkeys. Compared with people of colder 
climates, the Africans eat little flesh in their ordi¬ 
nary diet. Though they have every other kind 
that could be desired, they are especially fond of 
the flesh of a fat dog. When cooked in their 
“ palaver sauce ” it is in great demand. 
The traders from the interior were generally 
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