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grounds, extending from Okhotsk to Ajan and to the Amoor, would enable us to keep large herds of rein deer for transportation of supplies. The mouth of the Oulia is a good place for a depot.

I have also tried to follow the sea coast south of the Oulia and have advanced for 25 or 30 versts, there I found the route intercepted by mountains of considerable elevation, from seven to eight hundred feet high, you will find them on your maps, they are called Kankin Rocks. The mountain range between the mouth of the Oulia and Ajan takes occasionally a westerly direction leaving considerable space between the sea coast and the hills, but in four or five places the mountains intercept the route entirely.     I regret not to have been able to survey more of the coast in the direction of Ajan, but we had no means to ascend Kimkin rocks. I could not obtain an sufficient number of rein deer meeting a few poor Tunguzi families, possessing only ten or twelve deer, a number hardly sufficient for their own necessities, the only wealthy chief who had been on the Mail river had moved to Nelkan with the men I had sent after Mahood, and had to remain there to furnish rein-deer to the party. Captain Mahood is instructed to try the coast line and should he find it impracticable he will come over Nelkan. My last explorations 

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existence of Nelkan (village) verified in Bush's book on googlebooks.