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by him. He therefore returned with his object unaccomplished, 
carrying with him a heap of walrus-tusks, which were sent 
to Yakutsk as an appendix to a proposal to send out hunters 
to the Polar Sea to hunt for these animals. In the mean¬ 
time a true idea of the course of the Anadyr had been obtained 
through statements collected from the natives, and a land-route 
had become known between its territory and that of the Kolyma. 
Several Cossacks and hunters now petitioned for the right to 
settle on the Anadyr, and collect tribute from the tribes in that 
neighbourhood. This was granted. Some natives were forced 
to act as guides. The party started under the command of 
Simeon Motora, and came finally to Deschnev s simovie on the 
Anadyr. Staduchin followed, and traversed the way in seven 
weeks. He however soon quarrelled with Deschnev and Motora, 
and parting from them on that account, betook himself to the 
river Penschina. Deschnev and Motora built themselves boats 
on the Anadyr in order to prosecute exploratory voyages, but 
the latter was killed in 1651 in a fight with natives called 
Anauls. They had been the first of all the natives of the 
Pacific coast of North Asia to pay “jassak” to Deschnev, and 
he had already at that time come into collision with them 
and extirpated one of their tribes. 
In 1652 Deschnev travelled down the Anadyr to the river 
mouth, where he discovered a walrus-bank, whence he brought 
home walrus-tusks. There afterwards arose a dispute between 
Deschnev and Selivestrov ^ regarding the rights founded on the 
discovery of this walrus-bank, which came before the authorities 
at Yakutsk, and it was from the documents relating to it that 
Miiller obtained the information that enabled him to give a 
narrative of Deschnev’s expedition. Only in this way have 
1 Selivestrov had accompanied Staduchin during his Polar Sea voyage, 
and had, at his instance, been sent out to collect walrus-tusks on account of 
the State. He appears to have come to the Anadyr by land. 
