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intermediate station for the expedition. Here were the
dwellings of two officers, a barrack, two earth-huts, six
warehouses, and a few other buildings and
winter-huts. In these warehouses the goods were stored,
to be conveyed, in the following winter, on horseback
across the Stanovoi Mountains to the mountain stream
Urak, which, after a course of two hundred versts,
reaches the sea three miles south of Okhotsk.
For this part of the expedition, new winter-huts on
the Stanovoi Mountains, and magazines, river boats,
and piers on the Urak had to be built. This river is
navigable only for a few days after the spring thaw.
Then it boils along at the rate of six miles an hour,
often making a trip down its course a dangerous one.
Losseff says that in this way, other things being
favorable, Okhotsk was reached in three years. The brief
account which has here been attempted gives but a
faint idea of the labor, perseverance, and endurance
requisite to make one of these expeditions. Barges
and boats had to be built at three different places,
roads had to be made along rivers, over mountains,
and through forests, and piers, bridges, storehouses,
winter-huts and dwellings had to be constructed at
these various places. Not only this. They suffered
many misfortunes. Boats and barges were lost, men
and beasts of burden were drowned, deserted, or were
torn to pieces by wolves,—and all these difficulties
Bering and his assistants overcame through their own
activity, without the support of the Siberian
government, yes, in spite of its ill will, both concealed and
manifest. In 1737, he reported to the Admiralty:
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