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Two days' journey brought us to the mouth of a branch coming in from the northeast, and which I believed would lead us as we wished to go, but the next morning having carried at its mouth  by a large [[?]] fire as we had generally done since leaving [[?]], it being necessary to keep the wolves from our deer, going up it a short distance, finding the Cliffs on such steep [[?]] and difficult to travel on.  The ice is never covered with snow and water to the depth of a couple of feed.  The general uncertainty and risk of the undertaking forced us to turn back.  Ther was nothing to do but go up the Gerarn, which we accordingly did, cropping the Jugfar Mt. in a not very difficult face Dec. 18/30.  The next day found a Turguse family on the head of the Mimakan, and after spending New Year's Day there and resting ourselves and the deer, which were very much fatigued, finally succeeded in procuring a Turguse who was up there hunting from Nantar to guide us to Aian, he telling us that, as I had expected, the Elemdra was the branch of the Geran which led across the Kelar hills to Neina river.

Dec. 21st, 1865, Janig 28, 1866, we left the Mimakar, scroped the Juggar at a different point a little farther south where it was easier and descended another branch of the Geram, called Labla, then down the Geram about 10 [[?]] to the month of the Elemdra, which we reached on the morning of the 24 Dec. or Jany.  We reached the Elemndra, from here to Aiain the route was easy enough with our guide there was no trail and we had to break our own road as we had done all along. But as a general thing the snow was not