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tives wished to. know what the outside of the 
creature looked like, and as Mr. Townsend 
had been at Ward’s establishment in Roches- 
ter when the first copy of the Stuttgart resto- 
ration was made, he rose to the emergency, 
and made a sketch. This was taken ashore, 
together with a copy of the cut of the skele- 
ton that was laboriously made by an Innuit 
sprawled out at full length on the deck. Now 
the Innuits, as Mr. Townsend tells us, are 
great gadabouts, making long sledge journeys 
in winter and equally long trips by boat in 
summer, while each season they hold a regular 
fair on Kotzebue Sound, where a thousand or 
two natives gather to barter and gossip. On 
these journeys and at these gatherings the 
sketches were no doubt passed about, copied, 
and recopied, until a large number of Innuits 
had become well acquainted with the appear- 
ance of the mammoth, a knowledge that natu- 
rally they were well pleased to display to any 
white visitors. Also, like the Celt, the Alas- 
kan native delights to give a “soft answer,” 
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