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THE MAMMOTH 191 
aright, held the record of farthest north on the 
Pacific side. On one of these northern trips, 
to the Kotzebue Sound region, famous for the 
abundance of its deposits of mammoth bones,* 
_ the Corwin carried Mr. Townsend, then natu- 
ralist to the United States Fish Commission. 
At Cape Prince of Wales some natives came 
on board bringing a few bones and tusks of 
the mammoth, and upon being questioned as 
to whether or not any of the animals to which 
they pertained were living, promptly replied 
that all were dead, inquiring in turn if the 
white men had ever seen any, and if they 
knew how these animals, so vastly larger than 
a reindeer,. looked. 
Fortunately, or unfortunately, there was on 
board a text-book of geology containing the 
_ well-known cut of the St. Petersburg mam- 
moth, and this was brought forth, greatly to 
the edification of the natives, who were de- 
lighted at recognizing the curved tusks and 
the bones they knew so well. Next the na- 
* Elephant Point, at the mouth of the Buckland River, is so 
named from the numbers of mammoth bones which have accumu- 
lated there. 
