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other over a good part of the Koriak territory and lost a whole month at Lessnoi. having passed over a distance of at least twenty five hundred versts. Considering these circumstances we certainly supposed that if the main expidition has met with no accident the expected party must have reached its destination before us. Unfortunately it was not so they were neither in Kamennoi nor Ghijiga.
   I wanted to leave immediately for Anadyrsk thinking to find there the party without failure the distance between Anadyrsk and the mouth of the river being about seven hundred versts in following the crooked stream but I could obtain no means for transportation the Natives refusing positively to hire their dogs to Anadyrsk.
   These Penjinsk Gulf Koriaks all have a passion for trading . Every year by the first winter road they come to Ghijiga to buy different goods from the Russian Merchants then they hurry to the Behring Sea Settlements and sail again the same goods with great advantage.
  Had it not been for the Ispravnik