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about 20 versts from the mouth, following to the head and crossing the Arla Hills, where we found snow 3 feet deep and especially on the head of the Arlo river, where it was 4 ft. deep.  This was the first snow of any consequence we had seen, and as it was soft and we had no snow shoes to walk on and relieve our deer, it was very fatiguing for them, especially the pack deer, they sinking so deep that their loads were continually dragging.  However, after a couple of days on the Aula, the travelling became quite good.

This valley is from a verts to a mile wide quite near the sea when it and the valley of the Turn became one.  Reached the junction of Solwerp, a Yekut cattle driver near the mouth of Arla river in the afternoon of Nov. 9/21 and spent with him the night, bought from him some very nice beef for 6 roubles a food, which now with tea and sugar was our subsistence, being out of hard bread.  Left this place the next day about noon and Nov. 11/23 crossed the Telap hills at their lowest point about 5 versts from there.  The pass is low wooded and perhaps a verst from the level on one side to the other.

From here to Algasee, which is 7 verts above the mouth of Anda river, the country is perfectly flat and thinly wooded.  Reached Algarce at noon Nov. 12/24.

Discharged the deer here and hired dogs to go up to Odyskoi some 80 or 90 versts, where the Espravkaik lived, and to whom I had letters from the Governor Admiral Furghelm, requesting him to give us deer and a Cassack, that is to say send for the Turgere in his