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to Ghijigha and if I would supply them with dog food I could hire them to bring supplies for us.

I instructed Lieut. Norton to engage all the Nartes that he could, and having made arrangements with some cossacks to buy deer and have them driven to the Myan, left Penjina March 30th for Ghijigha with 4 nartes I brought from Anadyrsk.

At that time 24 reindeer were on the road to the Myan.

I procured food for the dogs at Shestakova and Cocil and arrived at Ghijigha April 9th. On the 12th a severe poorga began to blow, which moderated a little on the 13th when I started back, the 4 nartes I had brought, with supplies, remaining in Ghijigha myself until the Penjina nartes arrived to load them up and settle the accts. of the district.

The 14th April the sorm(sic) commenced again and blew almost without cessation for two weeks. On the 19th the nartes that started the 13th returned to Ghijigha empty,