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chief agreed and assured me that no one would touch it. Con-
cerning the deer, he promised to bring them the next day at
dawn.

"In the morning (the 13th), we buried the body of the
deceased on the nearest shore, a mile and a half from the sloop.

"The Chukchi visited us with their above-mentioned chief,
Lei-chai-gu, whom I immediately began to ask about deer, and
he promised to deliver ten of them in two days without any
excuses. I willingly agreed to this time, saying, however,
that Telmuurgin had already deceived me and did he intend
to do likewise? But Lei-chai-gu promised as a pledge of
loyalty to remain hostage on the ship until they brought the
deer, and in the meantime, asked to be shown the things which
I intended to pay him.

"On the next day (the 14th), early in the morning, were
brought six deer which weighed about eleven poods [385 pounds],
and Lei-chai-gu spent the night with us again.

"Among the Chukchi who visited us we noticed some dressed
extremely poorly and talking in a different language, but
otherwise not differing from the others. I asked Lei-chai-gu
about it and recieved the answer that along the shore of the
sea from Mechigmenskaia Bay lived peoples named: Emnunka,
Kaliaingyr, Rliarliaiut, and Unyven, speaking different lan-
guages distinct from the Chukotski as well as from each other,
and that they are satisfied with food only from the sea, on
which they always live, not changing abodes. They do not have
their own deer and are very poor.