Note 317 — Chapter IV · MARKET DAYS
Reading edition
R. A. Freeman, Travels and Life in Ashanti and Jáman, Westminster, 1898, p. 176 (market every fourth day among the Gaman, a Tshi-speaking people); M. Monnier, France noire, Paris, 1894, p. 209 (market every fifth day in Kong); L. G. Binger, Du Niger au golfe de Guinée, Paris, 1892, i, 370 (market every fifth day among the Diulasu); L. Desplagnes, Le plateau central nigérien, Paris, 1907, p. 377 (market every sixth day among the Habbe). A market every ninth day is described as being held at Bocqua in Northern Nigeria (R. Lander and J. Lander, Journal of an Expedition to explore the Course and Termination of the Niger, London, 1832, iii, 73, 82). For a general account of markets among the Nigerian peoples see A. Hovelacque, Les nègres de l’Afrique sus-équatoriale, Paris, 1889, pp. 355 sqq.