. The Baganda . bIG. IN GOURD-BOTTLES BEING SOLD IN THE MARKET. the work themselves, or to pay proper wages for it to bedone ; boys therefore assembled in force at about five oclockfor this purpose. The refuse was burned, after being swept toone side in heaps ; in this way the market-place became fairlyclean and tidy for the next days sales. Unsold meat wascarried away by the owner, who might offer it for sale againon the next day. As a rule, there was but little left over,and care was taken not to overstock the market with deadmeat, which soon became unfit for food. The fat was eage
. The Baganda . bIG. IN GOURD-BOTTLES BEING SOLD IN THE MARKET. the work themselves, or to pay proper wages for it to bedone ; boys therefore assembled in force at about five oclockfor this purpose. The refuse was burned, after being swept toone side in heaps ; in this way the market-place became fairlyclean and tidy for the next days sales. Unsold meat wascarried away by the owner, who might offer it for sale againon the next day. As a rule, there was but little left over,and care was taken not to overstock the market with deadmeat, which soon became unfit for food. The fat was eagerlybought up thy women engaged in .soap-making; it com- XV MARKETS AND CURRENCY 455 mandecl a high price, and was often asked for in advance ; infact some women had contracts to take as much as the chiefwho superintended the market could supply. Beer wasmeasured by the gourd, called a kita, or, if it was wanted in asmaller quantity, it was sold by the cup (endeku). When it. FIG. 80.—MEAT STALL IN MARKET. was bemg brewed, it was measured by the large bath (lyato) inwhich it was brewed; this bath was six feet long, two feet wide,and eighteen inches deep. Cooking-pots were priced accordingto their size ; a large pot was sold for two hundred cowry-shells, small ones for twenty or thirty cowry-shells. A milk-pot cost sixty or even a hundred cowry-shells, a tobacco-pipe 456 THE BAGANDA chap. from five to ten cowry-shells, and a water-pot from forty tofifty The country market-places belonged to the chief upon places. whose land they stood ; no private person was able to open amarket without permission from the King and the District-Chief When a new market was to be opened, the King senta man whose duty it was to plant a barkcloth tree, to kill thefirst animal near the newly-planted tree, and to eat a meal onthe spot; the remaining meat was then sold, and the marketdeclared to be open. Every person who brought an animalto be sold for meat
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