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no Trguse to go that way, as they didn't know the road; there were no people living there and they were afraid of deep snow, &c.

Procured deer to take us a couple of days farther where a Nihold Farguse owning nearly three hundred deer lines, and then after engaging deer to go ahead or turn back, as the contents of your litter would direct, we waited for the arrival of the Copack who would be back in his return, the Turguse sailed in two or three days.  Waited two days and on the receipt of your letter immediately started for Okhotsk.

The route we were obliged to take from the in is somewhat circuitous, croping the heads of the Eastern tributary of the [[?]], but not at all near that river.  Before receiving the Gorggn to the head of a northern branch of the Ulsya called Tealee, we were obliged to change deer, the Turguse very unwilling to go farther.  After obtaining them, I stared in advance with the Copack you had sent and who was not accompanying us for Okhotsk, taking the deer to Colmucar forty [[?]] above the mouth and on the river Ulgo.  I prepred 8 dogs and Knarto and reached Okhotsk thirty-six hours before the sect of the party.

We having been 130 days on the road from the [[?]]--78 days travelling and 52 days detained at different places-about 2300 [[?]] of reindeer riding, the rest dogs.

The general appearance of the country between here and Aian is about the same as between obmi and the Gerain; in some places [[?]] growth of timber, in other