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from setting out before the 31st of May. The crew consisted 
of ten men, and two subalterns. 
The first day we had both wjnd and tide against us. The fol¬ 
lowing day we passed the river Ulrak, which we could not enter 
on account of the boisterous weather, and rapidity of the stream. 
Not far beyond the Ulrak, two rivers of no remarkable magni¬ 
tude, namely, the Tschitschikonka and the Chomot, fall into the 
sea. They both take their source from the Urakish mountains, 
at the distance of 30 versts. 
W e were prevented by the storm for two days, from approach¬ 
ing the shore. On the third we were carried with the stream, to 
the entrance of the united brooks Mariakanka and Andytscha, 
which flow about 40 versts from the adjacent mountains. Be¬ 
tween the Mariakanka and the Chomot, is a lake ten versts long 
and one and a half broad, running in a parallel line with the sea'. 
Notwithstanding the violence of the stream with which we 
had to contend, we managed to enter the river Ulga the next 
morning, which is about 75 fathoms broad. We observed no 
sand-banks at its entrance, and no shoals where the water was 
not two feet in depth. On the right side of the river is a bay, 
which extends from thence seven versts close by the sea, and is 
about half a verst broad. The left bank runs" near the brook 
Elgan, which occupies nearly 150 versts in extent of country, 
and flows also for seven versts close by the sea. It receives the 
addition of several other smaller brooks. 
The river Ulga springs from the same mountain as separates 
the Ulkan from the Mala. Two hundred versts from its mouth, 
it has a cataract of such an extraordinary height and steepness, 
as to prevent any canoe from passing by it. According to the 
assertion of the Tungusians, this river affords a great quantity of 
timber, at a considerable distance higher up. 
We were detained here a whole day by bad weather, in which 
we had a succession of rain and snow. The surrounding moon- 
tains were entirely covered with the latter. 
The shore, from Ochotsk to this place, is remarkably low; 
but rises at the distance of 15 versts by a chain of mountains, 
that gradually approach the river as you proceed farther, and 
form several rocky declivities. In this country we found three 
jurts of Reindeer Tungusians, who were settled here, for the 
purpose of catching bears, which are allured by the sea-weed 
that is thrown up, to frequent this shore in vast herds. They 
are very quiet, and even afraid.of men, who kill them without 
any difficulty. 
The nekt day we passed the river Guntschi, which is eleven 
fathoms broad at its mouth, and has its source in the south¬ 
western chain of mountains. The two rivers, Nandakan and 
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