LETTER TO HIS BROTHER, 47 



however, I will give things in their regular se- 

 quence. Fii'st, then, the story of my journey ; 

 after that, I will tell you what I am doing 

 here. As papa has, of course, shown you my 

 last letter, I will continue where I left off. . . . 

 From Carlsruhe we traveled post to Stutt- 

 gart, where we passed the greater part of the 

 day in the Museum, in which I saw many 

 things quite new to me ; a llama, for instance, 

 almost as large as an ass. You know that 

 this animal, which is of the genus Camelus, 

 lives in South America, where it is to the 

 natives what the camel is to the Arab; that 

 is to say, it provides them with milk, wool, 

 and meat, and is used by them, moreover, 

 for driving and riding. There was a North 

 American buffalo of immense size; also an 

 elephant from Africa, and one from Asia ; be- 

 side these, a prodigious number of gazelles, 

 deer, cats, and dogs ; skeletons of a hippo- 

 potamus and an elephant ; and lastly the fossil 

 bones of a mammoth. You know that the 

 mammoth is no longer found living, and that 

 the remains hitherto discovered lead to the 

 behef that it was a species of carnivorous ele- 

 phant. It is a singular fact that some fisher- 

 men, digging recently on the borders of the 

 Obi, in Siberia, found one of these animals 



