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Tchuctchus.

[[left margin]](20)[[/left margin]]  He returned in four days, bring six deer and the welcome intelligence, that we will be able to obtain all we want of them in the future, so that though our fare is without variety, we are sure of an abundance of it.

Lieut Macrae states, that upon his arrival at the Tchuctchu settlement, no one came to meet him, as they did last fall, but all of them walked off, as his boat approached shore. He was a little surprised at this, until one old man, with whom he travelled last winter, approached, from whom he learned that the others were afraid he would shoot them, thinking they had broken into the cabin. But when they found, that his mission was peaceful, they received him very kindly, let him have the deer, and told him to come again as soon as they were gone.

We learned from them who had entered the cabin, some of the northern Tchuctchus, as we supposed, and that two of them drank something they thought was liquor, one of whom was not expected to live. From their description of the jug, it must have been the liniment. We could learn nothing of the arsenic.

They also said these persons, who had taken articles from the cabin had been severely beaten by the Tchuctchus, who looked upon it as a shame, but I think that story was