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Report of the Committee, consisting of Sir Joseph Hooker, Dr. 

 Gunther, Mr. Howakd Saunders, mid Mr. P. L. Sclater 

 (Secretary), appointed for tlie pnipose of exploring Kilima-njaro 

 and the adjoining mountains of Eastern Equatorial Africa. 



1. The Committee have the satisfaction of announcing that they have 

 made arrangements with Mr. H. H. Johnston (who has recently returned 

 from the Congo) to undertake an exploration of Kilima-njaro, and that 

 he is probably by this time encamped upon that mountain. 



2. The Committee have arranged with Mr. Johnston to undertake the 

 whole cost of the expedition for 1,0007., without reference to personal re- 

 muneration. It is believed that the necessary expenditure will not be 

 covered by this sum, but Mr. Johnston has agreed to make good any 

 deficiency. 



3. Towards this sum of 1,000?., the Committee have appropriated a 

 sum of 500?., granted to them by the Association at their last meeting at 

 Southport. The Committee have also received from the Government 

 Grant, Committee of the Royal Society two sums of 250?. each, so that the 

 whole amount of 1,000?. required for the expedition is already available. 



4. But looking forward to the risks of African travel, and to the 

 expenditure likely to be incurred on the transport to this country, and 

 on the working out of the collections obtained by Mr. Johnston, the 

 Committee trust that a further sum of fifty pounds may be placed at their 

 disposal. 



5. A copy of part of Mr. Johnston's last letter to the Secretary of 

 the Committee, containing an account of the progress of the expedition, is 

 annexed to this Report. 



Extracts from a letter from Mr. Johnston to Mr. Sclater, dated 

 British Residency, Zanzibar, May 13, 1884 : — ■ 



'At last my expedition, thanks to the help of Sir John Kirk, is 

 organised and ready to start. I have engaged thirty-two men here (at 

 Zanzibar), and have sent them off to Mombasa in a daw to await my 

 coming. I myself leave to-day for Mombasa in the mail. At Mombasa, 

 through the Consul (Captain Gissing), I have engaged sixty more men, 

 for it will need nearly a hundred porters to carry my goods and baggage 

 to Chagga. I hope to leave Mombasa in a fortnight's time. I anticipate 

 three weeks' easy travel to Kilima-njaro, and, as far as it is possible to 

 foretell aught in Africa, no serious difficulties seem to stand in my way. 

 The expedition, however, will prove much more costly than I had antici- 

 pated 



' However, I think I shall be able to make both ends meet for six 

 months on Kilima-njaro, and if 1 stay longer, or make a dash at Kenia, it 

 will be on my own account. I shall probably make Taita or Teita (vide 

 map) a half-way hou^e, and go backwards and forwards with collections 

 and goods. I shall try to forward collections addressed to you by every 

 mail if feasible. Then, if you judge of the value, and estimate that my 

 share of the collections will realise a good amount, it will induce me to 

 devote more time to the country. 



' My health, notwithstanding a much more trying climate than I have 

 yet met with in Africa, has been very good, and I have not known an 



