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and four or five to man one. I most respectfully ask the 

 Imperial College of Admiralty to consider the number of 

 men employed at this work, and what they are accom- 

 plishing. All of this, too, is being done by my forces. 

 From the government officer in Okhotsk, Skornjakoff- 

 Pissarjeff, we have not, since the day of our arrival here 

 up to the present time, received the slightest assistance 

 in transportation, shipbuilding, or anything else what- 

 soever. Nor have we any hope of obtaining any such 

 assistance in the future. And even if we should demand 

 suj)port from him, we would only have long and fruitless 

 negotiations with him, for while in Yakutsk, he sent me 

 a written notification (February 28, 1737), refusing to 

 assist in the transportation from Yudomskaya Krest to 

 Okhotsk. 



In addition to the facts here adduced, together with 

 my earlier reports to the Imperial College of Admiralty, 

 wherein I have given an account of my efforts for the 

 progress of the enterprise and shown the impossibility of 

 an early consummation of the main object of my expedi- 

 tion, I appeal to the testimony of all the officers of my 

 command. All of which is respectfully submitted. 



Bering, Commander. 



