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was not very pleasant. The party being neither in Ghijiga nor Anadyrsk, it became evident that for the present, I could not recon on their cooperation. Except in addition to our numerical force, I expected to receive through the party, supplies, provisions and above all, news. I was anxious to know about the result of the Naval expidition, and to hear of Col. Bulkley to whom we are all much attached.

I felt the necessity to adopt another plan without delay, and to urge its execution. We were five men, two of whom on the Amoor, to locate the telegraph route over six thousand versts of the worst country in the World, we, consequently had no time to lose in disappointments and lamentations. Our health became then a very important question for the interests of the Company, because in case of illness we could furnish no substitute and the exploration had to stop short. Ghijiga being the only place, where means for transportation to Anadyrsk could be found, I sent there Kennan and Dodd with orders, after a couple of days rest, which

Transcription Notes:
The cursive "f" in "necessity" was a standard way of representing ss in the era this was written.