Note 318 — Chapter IV · MARKET DAYS
Reading edition
A. Mischlich, Lehrbuch der hausanischen Sprache, Berlin, 1902, p. 127 (Hausa); J. S. Gallieni, Voyage au Soudan français, Haut-Niger, et pays de Segou, Paris, 1885, p. 436 (Segu); R. Callié, Travels through Central Africa to Timbuctoo, London, 1830, i, 323, 346 (Mandingo); A. Hacquard, Monographie de Tombouctou, Paris, 1900, p. 55; O. Lenz, Timbuktu, Leipzig, 1884, i, 154. The Bali market is said to be held every seventh day, i.e., on Friday. Here, again, Mohammedan influence is to be suspected (F. Hutter, Wanderungen und Forschungen im Nord-Hinterland von Kamerun, Brunswick, 1902, p. 361).