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informing him that we were on the way to his district, making every exertion to arrive as fast as possible, but that the appearance of the weather being threatening I conceived some anxiety for our horses. I informed him also that a party had probably been landed at the mouth of Anadyr River, and asked him to assist them.

This letter could be sent in comparative safety by express from one settlement to another as far as the last Kamtchadal village Lessnoi, 350 versts north of Tigil, but it was questionable whether it would be done in the same way by the wandering Koriaks of the plains. Having no other means for corresponding, I had to try it and told the man who left Tigil that if the letter would be carried by the Koriaks from camp to camp and reach Shijiga in due time, I would on my passage over the plains be very generous toward those who took good care of my message. Later, I heard much to my satisfaction that the letter had arrived to its destination and proper orders issued to the inhabitants of Anadyrsk three weeks before our arrival to Shijiga.

The weather looking somewhat better, we left Tigil September 15. This did not last, and a few hours after our departure rain, wind, and
wet snow came on again and only left us when five days later we approached Lessnoi.

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