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subsisting on fish and living with natives. The remainder of the party were on the Myan still.

From Lt. Macrae I learned that after their supplies were exhausted, they abandoned work and had to depend entirely upon what game they could catch in their traps, grouse and rabbits and fish that Illia furnished them with until the snow began to melt when their traps would no longer stand.

Lieut. Macrae endeavored to reach the Karaks but without success, when he came to Marcova to try any get supplies. The inhabitants were also nearly starved, as the storms delayed their nartes 20 days longer than they expected, for which time they had been living upon almost nothing. There was nothing in the country to be obtained for food but horses of which there were 13. Two of these Lieut. Macrae had killed and sent to the Myan for food.

The reports of Lieut. Macrae and Mr. Norton which accompany this, will relate the sufferings and anxieties they had to undergo. The day