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At School at Mengo
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Luganda in formation, not being Bantu languages at all; and it is necessary to show the Baganda that all languages are not founded on the same principles as their own.

Afternoons in school have been devoted chiefly to elder scholars and intending pupil teachers, and a variety of subjects have been taught—Scriptural and general knowledge, including a little geography, astronomy, physiology, anatomy, and so on—all useful in expanding the native mind. At home, in the evenings after school, we have had pupil teachers, and given short Bible expositions, with very profitable results.

It is always a pleasure to missionaries to receive visits from their young pupils, and to receive trifling presents of a few coffee beans, or a few eggs, or a fowl, not for the value of the things received, but as an assurance that the pupils have regard for them, and that the affections are being won. The Baganda are naturally unselfish, and many