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to the Report of Surgeon Fisher.  As at first, we find the natives kind and hospitable; together, or alone, our young men have wandered hundreds of miles among them, ever welcome to their rude shelter from the wintry blast, and to a part of their half cooked, or frozen food.  We have met them as friends, and find friendship in return.  No intoxicating drink from our hands has stolen away of their senses, and made them madmen!  No vile trickery, nor abuse of their simple trust has yet taught them to think, that we intend them harm.  The Tchuctchoi tribe, of whom so much was said by the Russian and English travellers, and whom, by all accounts, we were led to consider as hostile, treacherous and unreliable, have shown themselves of an entirely different character.  They are naturally a timid people, possessing but little confidence in their own powers.  This is mainly due however to the fact that some years since, while engaged in war with a tribe in the interior, these seacoast people were badly beaten.  Farther South we find the Yakouts, and wandering Tonguse.  These have shown themselves most friendly and willing to lend any assistance in their power.  Two of our young men starting from the mouth of the Anadyr in the hope of finding a path to the head of the peninsula of Kamchatka were kept among these natives for some sixty days.  The natives remembering the instructions