Note 311 — Chapter IV · MARKET DAYS
Reading edition
F. E. Forbes, Dahomey and the Dahomans, London, 1851, p. 181. For every fourth day as the market day at Whydah see P. E. Isert, Neue Reise nach Guinea und den Caribäischen Inseln in Amerika, Berlin, 1790, p. 132. Bosman (op. cit., p. 352) makes the Fida (Whyda) market recur every third day. A great market every sixth day is said to be held in the district about the town of Ardrah (Allada), Dahomey (John Adams, Remarks on the Country extending from Cape Palmas to the River Congo, London, 1823, p. 88).