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trees, suitable for telegraph poles; straight and well proportioned. We followed the stream down twenty eight (28) miles to where it empties into the main river. Thence continued in a Northeasterly course following the Khotelno River ten miles. Here we met the first of the first of the Koynkon Indians. Seventeen (17) miles farther down, struck across a ridge to the eastward (rising about eight hundred (800) feet above the valley, reaching a small stream running in a northerly direction and emptying into the Khotelno River near its mouth, down which we followed to where it empties into the the Koynkuk River. This stream is about one hundred and twenty (120) miles in length; and navigable for bidaras about sixty (60) miles to the mouth of the Thlekadethlithno river. 

The valleys along the route are dotted over with clumps of spruce trees, poplar, birch, alder, and large willow plots, and will average for Ninety (90) miles, from one and a half to two miles in width. The hills to the westward rise abruptly from the valley; along their sides and along the ravines it is wooded with spruce and small birch. 

To the eastward they are thinly timbered with small stunted spruce, many of them are barren.

On leaving Holilkayns-lā Koynkon village, situated at the mouth of the Khotelno River,