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nearly all the time badly swollen.

As soon as we struck the Anadyr again, we found the water much deeper and the current much swifter.

About 8 versts below the junction of the two rivers, we came upon the camps of the inhabitants, who had abandoned Markova and the other villages up the river, and come here to catch fish.

We stopped here for the purpose of getting some fish, but after fishing two days with very poor success, pushed on to the mouth of the Bailey River.

[[left margin]](20)[[/left margin]] At 6 o'clock A.M. June 18th July 1st we arrived at the mouth of the Bailey.

Here we tied up and I sent a carbass, to try and procure meat, but in a few hours they returned saying, there was none to be had here, but that a man, about 40 versts up the Bailey, had speared 100 deer, and we could get meat from him.

Not wishing to delay, I left Mr Hurder with two men to get some meat; and we pushed on, as soon as the wind would allow us.

On the raft we had piles of bark for covering the houses, which the wind would strike and in spite of all our efforts drive us ashore, so that when very windy, unless we could get to the neather shore, we were compelled to tie up. We generally kept near the centre