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[[left margin]](20)[[/left margin]] hoping to catch fish, as there are none at all here, and even the waterfowl have all deserted the place.

At Crepast, the inhabitants managed to subsist on rabbits, which they find on small hummocks jutting from the water, far out on the tunderas.

We are very little better off, as our own meat is consumed, and for several days, we have managed to get along, by exchanging black flour for anything we could get.

We have been subsisting, almost entirely, upon bread and tea, but yesterday our sugar gave out and I was forced to pay Bonshinf, a merchant here, R.32.50K, for 25. lbs which he, [[underline]] very kindly [[/underline]], let us have, though he says he does not sell it to the natives. I know from positive authority, that he brought several hundred pounds with him from Ghijigha, which he expected to sell us, and the reason why he does not sell to the natives, is because they cannot afford to pay his enormous prices.

We determined to go without sugar, but when I found that we would have to subsist ourselves and the men, that volunteered to go to the mouth of the Anadyr with us, upon bread and tea, for several days, I felt as though they ought to have sugar, if it could be obtained. I regret very much, that Sabinin could not bring the tea and sugar through, that you sent by him.

[[left margin]](10)[[/left margin]] I succeeded in procuring a few pounds of meat this morning, but the odor was so offensive, that we left it on the breakfast table untouched, and made a breakfast of bread and tea, which we will repeat for dinner.

If it were not for the hope of accomplishing something in this district, during the summer, I should have moved everything to the mouth of the Myan, where at least fish can
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