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Report of Proceedings in Markova.
Head Quarters, N.D.A.D. & O.J.
Markova, June 9/26th 1866.

Major S Abasa.
Sir:

I have the honor to report, that we reached this place May 23d June 4th, after a very difficult and disagreeable passage from the Myan River, as all the intervening streams were broken up, and in several places the dogs were obliged to swim from one cake of ice to another, in order to cross.

To support our narts, in such places we threw pieces of drift wood and brush into the water. The snow on the tunderas was saturated with water, making our progress very slow.

Upon reaching Markova, I found that Koshevin had made another effort to obtain food for us, but without success.

(10) I immediately assembled the inhabitants and gave orders for the yurtes to be taken down and carefully piled up, to secure them from the flood, but on the 25th May, 6th June, the ice in the Anadyr broke up with a crash, and in a short time the whole country was flooded. In this place the inhabitants were forced to abandon their houses and seek refuge on their roofs, or to take possession of small hummocks, that were above the water, using boats to go from one to another.

All we could do under the circumstances, was to wait patiently for the water to subside sufficiently for us to commence constructing our rafts.

The inhabitants are, nearly all, ^[[perfectly]] destitute of provisions, the greater part of whom have gone to the mouth of the Myan.
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