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and with these difficulties in the way, it was a task of no easy description to transport from Unalaklit to Nulato, provisions, Indian goods, clothing, &c. 

Messers F. M. Smith & Geo. R. Adams were stationed at Nulato, the former acting 
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as Commissary to that Department, and the latter accompanied by Lebarge and Lukine scoured portions of the upper and lower Kvikhpak, together with many miles of the Kayukuk country to learn something more definite regarding the country, natives, &c. and to secure fish. We found this year, in a measure one of famine among the different tribes, and on every excursion that was made, the one report was continually given – scarcity of fish. However by perseverance and paying good ^[[marginal insert]] (30) [[/marginal insert]] prices, a few fish were secured, which enabled Mr. Adams to proceed on a short expedition in the Kvyukuk country for several days, and this gentleman ascending a high mountain examined the country in the direction of the sea. Continued ranges of mountains covered the country as far as the eye could see, and the prospect then looked gloomy enough to find and available pass for telegraph purposes.

On the 9" of January, 66, I left Unalakhlit in company with Major Kennicott, for