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were obliged to camp in a shallow basin upon the top of the hills, without finding them.

There was so little vegetation of any kind, that we had to send out a nart upon the neighboring hills to gather enough dry sticks to cook supper with. The next morning. Monday, April 18/30, a N.E. wind began to blow, and the snow to drift, but I sent out two men to find the Kosaks and bring four deer for dog food, also to obtain what dry food they could, as it is much lighter.
 
We estimated that a deer weighing 70 [[lb?]] would feed a team of 10 dogs 2 days, while 20 [[lbs?]] of dry fish would abundantly supply them for the same length of time. In the evening the men returned, [[left margin (20) [[/left margin]] bringing, not only the deer, but some fish and seal meat, so that we had no fear of our supply giving out, before we reached Crepast. 

Seven Kosaks brought the meat for them upon their sleds. I gave a "Papooska" of tobacco for each deer and made them each a present of a handfull besides, and Lieut Macrae gave them each two needles, when they were perfectly satisfied. After treating them to tea, of which all the natives are very fond, we retired to an old, 

Transcription Notes:
Reviewer edit: as previous pages have used verst, an old Russian unit of measurement, it is possible the symbol after the weight numbers here is an old way to write a russian unit of weight (which would be funt in this case) or some mash of English and Cyrillic to write pounds (lb) using the russian b.