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searched long in vain for it with their field-glasses,
but finally discovered about thirty huts on that point
which shelters the harbor. In the middle of this
century it had about a thousand inhabitants, but since the
sale of Russian America, Bering’s town has been
hopelessly on the decline. At present it has scarcely 600
inhabitants and is of importance only to the fur trade.
Its first permanent inhabitants were brought from
the forts on the Kamchatka, and in the course of the
autumn there arrived from Anadyrskoi Ostrog a herd
of reindeer to supply the command of over two hundred
men with food, and thus spare other stores. This was
very necessary, for although Bering had left Okhotsk
with nearly two years’ provisions, one of the ships,
through the carelessness of an officer, stranded in
crossing the Okhotsk bar, and the cargo, consisting of the
ship’s bread for the voyage to America, was destroyed
and could not immediately be replaced. Some lesser
misfortunes in Avacha Bay further diminished the stores,
and hence, in the course of the winter, Bering found it
necessary to have large supplies brought across the
country from Bolsheretsk. The distance is about one
hundred and forty miles, and as nothing but dogs could
be procured, the natives were gathered from the remotest
quarters of the peninsula to accomplish this work of
transportation. The Kamshadales disliked journeys very
much. They had already suffered terribly under the
misrule of the Cossacks. They were treated cruelly,
and many died of overwork and want, and the rest lost
patience. The tribes in the vicinity of Tigil revolted.
The Cossack chief Kolessoff, who was constantly drunk,
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