MARKET-LIFE. 3 to the south have cattle exposed for sale, and the tall Wakidi warriors, with their towering hair and iron gorgets, look on at the busy scene with indifference. They do not need dress materials, and what they want of iron, copper, glass beads, &., Kabréga gives them in abundance, in return for the ivory they bring him, it being, no doubt, to his interest to win the favour of these paying customers and secure them for himself. Among the thronging people, crowds of neighbouring villagers push their way and try to find a market for their bananas, sweet potatoes, beans, gourds, Colocasia, and flour; fishermen from the Albert Lake with (so-called) fresh and dried fish, women with enormous gourd-jugs full of foaming beer, male and female beggars, prostitutes, naked children, all scream and shout, and cattle, -goats, sheep, and dogs add to the ever-changing confusion. Groups of merry people are assembled around full beer-pots making music, the venal beauties of the country lending hearty assistance. Those who have finished their business and are preparing to go, generally turn into one of the adjacent smithies, which here, as in all Negro countries, are the places of resort for gossip, and among a group of idlers they are sure to hear the latest town and court news to take back to their distant homes. Thus the busy tumult continues till about four o'clock in the afternoon, when the people gradually disperse, and the noise of those that buy and sell is replaced by the barking of dogs and the angry cry of vultures as they fight over their meal, until they too disappear at dusk, and bats and night-jars (macrodipteriz) commence their ghostly flight in the pale moonlight.

Before the Arabs found their way to Uganda and Unyéro— leaving out of account a very old Arab settlement in Karagwa —the trade of these countries must have been lhmited to the barter of articles absolutely necessary to life. The value of the wares offered for sale must naturally, therefore, have depended on the pleasure of the seller and the greater or less need of the buyer, and his means. Money, or a substitute for it, certainly did not exist. But from the moment the first Arabs, Musa Mzuri and Ahmed-ibn-Ibrahim (who is still living in Werahanje), entered Uganda at the invitation of Mtésa’s father, Suna, the state of things was changed. The opening up of the road to Zanzibar, a journey at that time of H