_April 1st_.--The first move homeward has been made to-day. Lieut. Stairs has been despatched with his company, sixty-one effective rifles, to form advance camp at Mazamboni’s to store contributions, &c., ready for the huge column that will leave here on the 10th instant. Accompanying him were Major Awash Effendi, Rushti Effendi, and two or three other Egyptians and their followers, also fifty-seven of Mazamboni’s, twenty-nine of Usiri’s, and thirty of Mpinga’s natives. Besides loads of No. 2 Company, these carriers took eighty-eight loads of ammunition, Remington, Winchester, and gunpowder. Here is a curious table for medical men: WEIGHTS OF OFFICERS AT Banana Fort Bodo in Kavalli’s After Point, the Forest, Camp, sickness, 1887. 1888. 1889. 1889.[10] Stanley 168 lbs. 135 lbs. 145 lbs. 132 lbs. Jephson 168 “ 132 “ 150½ “ 132 “ Dr. Parke 162 “ 148 “ 170 “ Major Barttelot 144 “ -- -- Lt. Stairs 164 “ 143 “ -- Capt. Nelson 176 “ 140 “ 146 “ Emin Pasha -- -- 130 “ _April 2nd_.--Ruwenzori has been visible the last three days. That snow-covered range has been a most attractive and beautiful sight--pure, dazzling, varying in colours with the hours, with infinite depth of opaline blue all round it, until the sun set and dark night covered the earth. The natives declared it could not be seen because the south hill of the Baregga obstructed the view, but by our levels and triangulations we knew it ought to be seen; and it has been seen. We pointed it out to the natives. They turned and asked, “How did you know it could be seen from here?” [Sidenote: 1889. April 3. Kavalli’s.] _April 3rd_.--The Pasha is slowly opening his eyes. He came to me this afternoon and related that he had assembled his household of fifty-one souls--servants, guards, orderlies, who have hitherto been attached to him--and had asked them who were willing to accompany him on the 10th of April. All but four declined. The rest say they will wait for their “brethren.” One of these four faithfuls is one who bluntly stated that he only followed to seize a little girl whom Captain Casati was detaining by force from him, and that after getting possession of her he would return to Kavalli to await his “brethren.”