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the services of Capt. Sivats as guide and interpreter. An investment by the way which I have not regretted , he being accustomed to reindeer travelling besides being acquainted a great part of the country and all the people on the coast between the Amoor and Aian. I borrowed a small steamer from Capt. Beltsoff, the telegraph engineer and proceeded to Lake Ovello to meet the deer which I had appointed with the Turguse to be there on a certain day.
        After bidding good bye to the many kind friends we had met in Nicolaevsk, having been most cordially and hospitably received by all the Officers of the place, and particularly Governor Furgghelm who takes a great interest in the success of this undertaking. We left on the afternoon of October 9/21 st 1865, after a very pleasant stay of six weeks.
      We had had remarkably fine weather all the time of our stay in Nicolaevsk, but it now almost time for navigation on the Amoor to cease. We only went as far as Mayeli this night about 50 versts on the river and then anchored , going ashore and procuring a Gilyak as guide out the Lake something which it was impossible to procure in Nicolaevsk. Started early the next morning but to our horror found, after going nearly to the mouth of the Lake, that ice had formed all over the Channels, and it was snowing so hard that it was impossible to see more than 100 yards in any direction. After running through  a quarter of a mile or perhaps a half mile of this ice, we reached the Lake,