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His team of dogs were constantly going from one camp to another with supplies and in search Karaks to buy deer. He refused compensation from Lt. Macrae, but I paid him well upon my arrival.

I could not account for the absence of Tchuctchees this winter, until he told me it was always the case when fish fail in the Anadyr. They avoid the place knowing they would have to give away large numbers of deer without receiving any thing in return for them, from the inhabitants who  have very little to give. I however provided them all, who desired it, with tobacco for buying deer this winter.

Merchants who came from Ghijigha with 60 and 70 poods of tobacco, the amount they usually trade during the winter, returned, many of them having disposed of only two or three poods.

I had hoped, and it was my intention as soon as I could get dog food, to send nartes and have Mr. Robinson's body carried to the station