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I am glad to have sent people to meet them, and their junction must have taken place long ago: I expect daily, news from the Northern district of my Division.

When I came to Okhotsk I did not find there the officers whom I had sent to Nikolaersk and who had to explore Ajan and Okhotsk districts. I had too many affairs to terminate with the least possible delay and could not think of going immediately on another exploration tour in the direction of Ajan.

I must say that the failure in the cooperation of the party landed at mouth of Anadyr left in my hands a heavy task: I am quite alone and except a close exploration of the longest and hardest district, I have to make agreements, sign contracts, superintend different parts of work, which I have already succeeded to begin, and to attend to an extensive official correspondence with Col. Bulkley and the high Government authorities of Eastern Siberia, having not one person with me, who could only copy a letter.

Supposing Capt. Mahood at least in Ajan, I wrote to him that