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Rupian American Co., they being the only persons I met with who had been over any part of the route, until after the arrival of Governor Tenghelm, who had travelled from Aian to Nicolaevsk with reindeer, but not on a very direct route, and from him I obtained a great deal of very valuable information.

Governor Tenghelm travelled on the postroad between Aian and Okhotsk to Miel Station, near Nilkan, then through the valley of the Mimakan, crossing the Jugper or Stanaway range to the Geram river, up to its head, and across to the head of the Turgere at Boonkan, crossing it on the Nanufyan, a branch of the Anyour, thence down it and the Anyour and the Amorr, I believe in boats.  But from looking at maps of the country, I thought a more direct route could be found and would be preferable.  Capt. Lindholm, who was carrying on a whaling business at the mouth of the Turgere informed me that he had travelled some two or three times between there and Nicolaevsk.  Besides having been as far as Onclyskoi, he had travelled from Turgere to Ovell Lake and Nicolaevsk with dogs in the winter and crossing the heads of the different Bays on the ice.  He had also ascended the Turgere river to Boonkan in a small Tonguse boat or canoe, then hauled the boat across the Portage to the Nasonilyo, and descended it and the Amyour to Nicelaevsk.  He reports quite a sufficient depth of water in the Anyour for a small steamer, with the exception of one doubtful place, and that could be remedied.

Capt. Swartzs had four years ago, while in the