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me from going to Taksutsk myself to hire laborers and buy horses and cattle, but it would require and immediate outlay of eight or ten thousand roubles, and I am, as you know, almost entirely out of funds. I cannot avail myself of your authorizations to draw money through Wm. H. Boardman's house, the mail going from here to Nikolaersk via Tokoutsk and Irkoutsk over a distance of nearly nine thousand versts, a circumstance mentioned in my August report. I have nevertheless written to Mr Chase in Nikolaersk and have sent to him a letter which Mr Pierce writes to him on the subject, but these letters can never reach him before April.

Had I the necessary funds, a force of three hundred workmen would have been here with horses and cattle in the beginning of June. Arrangements with the inhabitants, as I have already mentioned have been made about fish, and the government stores of Okhotsk can furnish me with fifty or sixty thousand pounds of black flour. No all has to be postponed until the arrival of our vessels bringing supplies and funds, and we will never be able to get the men together until September, and it is doubtful whether we will have time enough to distribute them along the line even with the assistance of the Steamer. 
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