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order increasing their pay.

After our meat became exhausted, flour was our sole article of subsistence and when you look at the case from [[underlined]] our stand point, [[/underlined]] you will not be surprised that we consumed a considerable quantity.  Flour in fact formed our sugar, coffee and bread.  Our expense for the article, however, has not been large, owing to the cheap rate I purchased it from the Russian Company.  The chart made by Mr. Westdahl I send with this.  Mr. Westdahl was not able to accomplish as much as he wished, owing to the suspension of operations, but I must here state that during the winter he materially aided the building of the line by volunteering his services, for which I tender him my thanks.

The number of miles completed by the party at Unalachleet was forty five, also eleven miles of poles cut ready for transportation.  This with the erection of a hundred mile Station is the total of our work.

Had I had sufficient provisions or even had the reindeer meat not failed us, I am safe in saying that we could easily have