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The King and His People
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will thus be seen that it is very easy indeed to make mistakes when learning a new language.

Very stupid mistakes have often been made by new residents. One lady showed her servant some withered flowers, and said to him, ‘Bring me some flowers like these from the garden.’ In a few minutes the boy returned with all the withered flowers he could find, and said, ‘These are all I can find. All the others are in bloom.’ What the lady should have said was, ‘Bring me some flowers of this nature.’

Let us now turn to our mission station in the capital, which is built on a hill called Namirembe. Namirembe is one of many names applied to parts of the capital. Mengo is the name of the king's hill, and from this the capital takes its name. Namirembe is in the capital, and is merely the name of the hill on which our mission station is built. Kampala is the next hill, and is