In addition to their hunting and agriculture, the Baganda are very fond of trade and barter, and in many villages there is a market-place where a salesman must pay fees in order to get permission to sell his wares. The king of the Baganda receives these market dues, which amount to one-tenth of the produce sold, and as the produce offered for sale comprises animals, fish, eggs, salt, sweet potatoes, peas, beans, pottery, tobacco, axes, hoes, and rope, the amount of money due to royalty must be very great. At the end of a busy market day many boys are ready to clean up the market-place, in reward for which they get scraps of meat from the slaughter-house, a few coffee berries, or a little salt. Money consists of cowrie shells, two hundred of which are needed to buy a large earthenware pot; five to ten are given for a tobacco pipe; and in striking such bargains as these the busy marketing day soon draws to a close. CHAPTER VII SOCIAL LIFE OF THE BAGANDA A traveller among the Baganda tribe may soon learn that the people are divided into groups or clans, each of which regards some animal as its particular badge or emblem. An arrangement of this kind is not peculiar to the Baganda, or even to African natives. Indians of North America, Australian natives, and most tribes of the South Sea Islands have a similar grouping of the members in clans or “totems,” each having a plant or animal which is treated with great respect. There are a great many rules that members of the clan have to observe. For instance, among the natives of the “Leopard” clan no one may eat meat which has been torn, so that any animal killed or injured by a wild beast must be sold to some other clan. The “Leopards” were extremely important people, because from them the king and members of the royal family were chosen. In addition to the “Leopards,” there are people who call themselves “Lions,” “Otters,” “Elephants,” and even “Grasshoppers” and “Mushrooms.” Usually there is a story or tradition which is supposed to account for the beginning of this strange arrangement. People of the “Lion” clan say that soon after King Kintu came to his throne, many, many years ago, he went out to hunt a lion and an eagle. When the lion skin was dressed, King Kintu stood upon it and announced to his people that, in future, the lion was to be their sacred emblem, and although peoples of other clans might hunt the creature, members of the “Lion” group were never to take the life of their sacred animal. Three animals, the lion, leopard, and eagle, are all regarded as the special property of kings, who alone are permitted to use the skins. [Illustration: A BAGANDA MAN.]