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VII. The Paramount Chief's Market
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 21 August 2012
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- Native Standards of Living and African Culture Change
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- Copyright © International African Institute 1938
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page 45 note 1 The Indian economic studies give much useful information on the methods of studying markets and their regulation.
page 47 note 1 The sale of beer on the main roads was prohibited because it led to too many motor accidents. There is now a 3-mile limit which is somewhat elastic in its interpretation.
page 47 note 2 It is getting quite usual to find eating-houses at the chief stopping-places, where tea and scones and more solid food can be bought.
page 48 note 1 On the other hand, in the cotton and tobacco markets it is considered quite justifiable to cheat the European buyers, who are invariably looked on as profiteers.
page 48 note 2 The sellers coming from a distance take up sites in the market-place nearest the place at which they arrive, i.e. those from the west on the west side, and so on.
page 48 note 3 In old days chiefs sat on an ant-hill with their officials below them.
page 49 note 1 Trees are very scarce in this part of the Highlands, and most huts are made with a bamboo framework.
page 50 note 1 All goods are more expensive in the rains.
page 51 note 1 Roughly id. in a is., one banana in 20, a handful of maize in a big basket, and so on.
page 51 note 2 He feeds a number of people on market day, as visitors often turn up on the mail lorries.
page 52 note 1 The ligubo, the war dance, can only be danced at the Paramount Chief's village.