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necessary, to be stationed along the route. The authorities
at Yakutsk did not comply until the present year,
1737, and then only after repeated demands on my
part. But if I had neglected to attend to these
matters, and had hastened the departure to Okhotsk, the
voivode—in my absence—would have done nothing,
and it remains to be seen how the transportation to
Yudomskaya Krest will be attended to. * * * As
the difficulties with which we have had to contend are
very obvious, and although as a consequence the
immediate starting out of the expedition is improbable, I
can, nevertheless, conscientiously say that I do not
see how I could have in a greater degree hastened the
work of the expedition, or how I could have
intensified the zeal with which I have worked from the very
beginning. Through this report I therefore most
humbly seek at the hands of the Admiralty a considerate
judgment, and hope that it will show that matters
have not been delayed through my carelessness.
It is on account of these obstacles, together with
the fact that there was much work to be done in
Okhotsk, that I have been unable to prepare, in a
short time, the ships necessary for the voyage. My
command has had to work at Spangberg’s ships, which
are now ready. But also in Okhotsk, on the “Cat”
(Koschka), where these vessels and packet-boats are
being built, everything was bare and desolate. There
was not a building there,—nowhere to stay. Trees
and grass do not grow there, and are not found in
the vicinity on account of the gravel. In spite of
the fact that the region is so barren, it is nevertheless
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