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of Ghijiga, who had received my letter from Tigil, not a single team of dogs would have been left in the Gulf Settlements. The Ispravnik had sent Kosaks to Kamennoi and Poren, the two largest villages, with orders to the Natives not to dare move until after our passage. It can be imagined how impatient they were to get rid of us. They consented to convey us to Ghijiga but would hear nothing about going to Anerdyrsk, and rejected all my promises of high pay and reward.
What made them still more anxious to go to the East as fast as possible, was the arrival at Kamennoi of several Russian traders, with heavy loads of goods, on their way for the first time to the Behring Sea Koriaks. It was a dangerous competition. 
With this party of merchants was a priest of Ghijiga, escorted by several Cossacks, the object of his mission was to convert the Natives to Christianity. He will probably be as little successful with the Koriaks as his predecessors, in spite of the efforts of the Russian clergy these people all,are inveterate

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Not sure about Ghijiga - it does not even come close to any of the known tribes of Eastern Siberia. I could not find a single word that looked anything like this in references on eastern Siberia. On the web I found several references to this town of Ghijiga. The best one is here, in a letter from George Kennan http://digitalarchive.wilsoncenter.org/document/134081 ? [[user ZERO ZERO IS LAND]] (I'm pretty sure it is a place. There are lots of references to it in books found on googlebooks. Also spelled Shijiga.)