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serve as a shelter for us during the Spring floods and rains, but will answer for a station and storehouse afterwards.

There I expected to cut poles, sufficient to supply the Anadyr River, and to raft them to different points along the route, from which places they could be distributed in the winter with narts.

As we had no augurs, or tools of any kind, with which to construct rafts, I purchased all the seal thongs I could, but did not obtain enough, to assist us to any extent.

On the 5/17 of May, some of the men, who had been absent after food, returned, and I gave orders to the Shavasters for all the able bodied men to be in readiness to start for the Myan, Tuesday May 10/22 promising them pay, according to their work, and to feed them with tea, sugar, flour and meat, which would be deducted from their wages. According to your instructions I offered them 15 Roubles a month