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been made by the Siberian government officials,
notwithstanding the fact that an imperial ukase had
ordered these things. We have done all this. We
built transports, demanded laborers from Yakutsk, and
with great difficulty brought our provisions in these
transports to Yudomskaya Krest,—yes, with
superhuman efforts our command and these laborers—since
even upon my demand but very few were sent—also
brought the supplies at Yudomskaya Krest (12,000
poods of flour and rice) to Okhotsk. Moreover, at the
stopping place on the Maya, at the mouth of the
Yudoma, at the Cross, and on the Urak, we erected
magazines and dwellings for the forces, and also built
four winter-huts between Yudomskaya Krest and Urak
as places of refuge during the winter. Furthermore,
in accordance with our plans, we built, in 1736, at
the stopping place on the Urak, fifteen, and during
this year, 1737, sixty-five vessels on which to float
the provisions down the Urak. Of these, forty-two
are still at the place of construction, the remaining
thirty-seven having departed with provisions in 1735.
All of this has been done under my orders, not by
the government officials of Siberia.
In Yakutsk, where I was at that time staying, we
built two vessels, the boat Irkutsk and the sloop
Yakutsk, and in 1735 sent them out on the
expeditions assigned to them. We took pains to provision
them well, and furthermore sent four barges to the
mouth of the Lena with additional provisions for
them. In 1736 the Yakutsk had the misfortune to
lose its chief, Lieut. Lassenius, and many of the
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