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to get Nartes to go to Penjina for meat and supplies.

Most of the families were perfectly destitute as they had been unable to obtain deer, and others had been depriving themselves, with the hope of saving enough scraps for dog food to enable them to reach Ghijigha where they expected to procure provisions for themselves and food for their dogs. By offering to feed their dogs on deer meat at the Orlofka both going and coming and at Penjina, also to give them 2 deer for the use of their nartes to bring our supplies, several volunteered and six nartes immediately started March 19th. I sent Lieut Norton to Penjina to take charge of supplies and forwarded them as fast as nartes could be obtained. Learning from him that no more supplies had reached Penjina from Ghijigha since the Ispravink was there in Jan. and fearing that Capt. Kennan had been unable to procure the transportation he expected, I engaged 4 dog teams by feeding their dogs on