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These two people were the first to bring all necessary assist- 

 ance to the saved strangers. Eremoff volunteered to drive 

 to Buluii to give news about the found people. 



The man Nicolai Diakonoff, in whose hut, on Cape Byk- 

 offsky, the strangers were living, gave the people bad fish 

 and rotten geese. Then he did not go to Bulim as soon as 

 Mr. Melville told him to go. Through a person who knows 

 the English language has Mr. Melville told the ispravnik 

 about those people who showed the most hospitality to him 

 and his sailors. The first, Kusmah Eremoff. He gave to Mr. 

 Melville all the provisions in his poor house. He went with- 

 out assistance to Bulun to give information where Mr. Mel- 

 ville and the saved people were living, and that they could 

 not come further because they were so weak. 



Another man, Wassili Bobrowsky, has served Mr. Melville 

 as pilot from the mouth of the Lena to the habitation of 

 Nicolai Diakonoff, and has done all, refusing to take any- 

 thing for his assistance. More than that, he gave to Mr. 

 Melville and his sailors, fishes, sleds and dogs, and was very 

 careful to keep Mr. Melville well and to save him. The 

 third man, Efim Kopiloff, gave all that was necessary with- 

 out requiring pay for it, and as soon as all the fishes were 

 eaten he gave his geese, whereby he was running the risk of 

 hunger himself in the spring time. 



The two Yakuts who found Nindermann and Noros have 

 to be rewarded too. Nindermann and Noros would have 

 been dead from hunger if Ivan Androsoff and Constantine 

 Mohoploff had not found them Constantine Mohoploff was 

 all the time with Mr. Melville, giving him provisions. Mr. 

 Melville said that without his assistance he could not have 

 made the journey from Bulun in twenty-three days when 

 searching for the people. Nicolai Diakonoff ought not to be 

 rewarded, because he did not give the help which he could 

 have done. Of the overlooker from Gigansky Uluf, Baishoff, 

 Mr. Melville says he cannot reward him enough, and wanted 

 to speak himself about him to the general. 



I have the honor to explain all that I have written above 



