ELEPHANT OF THE LENA. 145 



" The parts least injured are one fore foot and 

 one hind foot ; they are covered with skin, and 

 have still the sole attached. According to the 

 assertion of the Tungusian chief, the animal was 

 so fat and well fed, that its belly hung down 

 below the joints of the knees. This Mammoth 

 was a male, with a long mane on the neck, but 

 without tail or proboscis.* The skin, of which I 

 possess three-fourths, is of a dark gray colour, 

 covered with a reddish wool and black hairs. 

 The dampness of the spot, where the animal had 

 lain so long, had in some degree destroyed the 

 hair. The entire carcass, of which I collected 

 the bones on the spot, is four archines (nine feet 

 four inches) high, and seven archines (sixteen 

 feet four inches) long, from the point of the nose 

 to the end of the tail, without including the 

 tusks, which are a toise and a half f in length ; 

 the two together weighed three hundred and sixty 

 pound avoirdupois ; the head alone, without the 

 tusks, weighs eleven poods and a half, four 

 hundred and fourteen pound avoirdupois. 



" The principal object of my care was to sepa- 

 rate the bones, to arrange them, and put them up 



* The places of the insertion of the muscles of the 

 proboscis are visible on the skull. It was probably devoured 

 as well as the end of the tail. 



f Nine feet six inches measuring along the curve. Tbe 

 distance from the base or root of the tusk to the point, is 

 three feet seven inches. 



