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search of a tribe of wandering Ksaks from whom we obtained food. The continued storms and deep snow compelled us to walk on snow shoes over a great part of the route to relieve the dogs so that it was not until the fifteenth day that I returned to Anadyosk very much exhausted but entirely satisfied with the result. We struck the Myan about sixty five persts [[??]] east of Penyina and followed it in a N.N.E. direction nearly to the "Crepach" [[??]] or Lower Anadysk. It is well timbered throughout its whole extent with Osiniva Tripolova and Larches a species of Tamarack very well adapted for poles. The stream is amply large enough to admit of rafting timber but even this will not be necessary as poles can every where be cut on the precise spot where they are desired to stand. Away from the belt of timber on the river the country consists of nothing but [[??]] and for the most part level tundras or steps affording no vegetation except moss and a little "Kedronik"[[??]] or trailing pine.
The river runs through a shallow valley bound on both sides by low mountains or high rolling hills. Its left bank I found very suitable for the line. The distance from where we first struck the Man