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Provisions and supplies were taken out and packed. 



A courier came from Eskimo Frank at Whalen, stating lie Lad 10 

 deer to sell and would be over as soon as ice and wind would allow. 



Sunday, July 15, steam whaler Belvidere left and stood through the 

 straits. At 10.05 p. m. got under way for Whalen, Siberia, where we 

 arrived at 1.10 a. m., July 16. 



July 18, about 9 a. m., Lieut. Chester M. White, and Seaman Edwards, 

 with Tom Cod and six other natives, left the ship for a boat trip 

 up the coast to Cape Serdze, going in advance of the ship to pur- 

 chase deer. 



July 20, at 12.05 noon, ship got under way and moved up the coast 

 lh knots to the mouth of the lagoon, auchoring at 1.20 p. m. At 

 3 p. m. Lieutenant Beinburg was sent off with some men in the sail- 

 ing launch after the deer. At 6.10 p. m. the officer returned and 

 reported his inability to reach the deer on account of the surf. 



The delay of ten days consumed in securing the 16 deer at Whalen 

 illustrates the difficulty of procuring them on the Siberian coast. 



Early in the morning of July 11 the ship dropped anchor on the 

 south side of East Cape, in the vicinity of a herd of reindeer, but the 

 owners lived on the north side of the Cape, where the ship could not 

 go on account of the ice. Five days were consumed in trying to open 

 communication overland with the deer men and waiting for the wind 

 to change. 



At length the wind having started from the south, which would 

 drive the ice off shore from Whalen, near midnight on the fifth day, 

 the ship got under way and went around to the north side of the Cape, 

 where communication was secured with the deer men and the deer 

 purchased. After making arrangements for the purchase of the deer 

 on the 16th, nothing further could be done toward catching the deer 

 and bringing them on the ship until the wind should change. It being 

 from the south the surf would not allow landing where the herd was. 

 After waiting in vain till the 19th for the wind to change, negotiations 

 were commenced with the deer men to drive their herd across the 

 peninsula. They finally agreed to bring them to a lagoon, from whence 

 they could be secured by the boats. 



At length on the 20th they were reported at the lagoon, but then 

 the surf was so bad on the lagoon that the boats could not be landed, 

 and it was only on the 21st, after eleven clays of waiting, that the deer 

 were actually secure on board. There are no harbors in the neighbor- 

 hood of the deer on the Siberian side. The ship usually anchors off 

 shore in from 7 to 15 fathoms of water, and if the wind comes to blow 

 strong on shore the anchor is raised and the ship goes out to sea, 

 whether she has secured the deer or not. Another difficulty is with 

 the ice. A strong wind off shore blows the great fields of ice seaward, 

 and into the open water near shore the ship steams. 



Dropping anchor in the neighborhood of a village, the natives come 



