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inviting me, should I come to Yakoutsk, to make of his house my home.

It was impossible to act with more promptitude and obligingness, and I was glad to hear of Mahood's party being at Ajan.

Here, in Okhotsk, I was most cordially received by the Ispravnik, granting to me the same privileges I had obtained in Kamchatka and Ghijiga and thus enabling me to survey the country with great economy. I must say that had the Expedition in Eastern Siberia been placed under different circumstances, the company's expenses would have been tripled, to say the least and not half of the work accomplished.

Capt Mahood gives me satisfactory news about the country he has traversed; he arrived at Ajan January 6th having left Nikolaewsk October 8th. He is somewhat mortified not having been able to travel more rapidly, but he lost the whole month at Oudskoï, a village head of Shantar Bay, where he could get no rein-deer, the Tungugi having wandered on a considerable distance from the village. The same has happened to me in Okhotsk, but