660 aUADRUPEDS. 



fathers, a similar monster was once before seen in those parts, and 

 the whole family of the person who discovered it soon became ex- 

 tinct. At this Schoumachoff was so much alarmed that he fell 

 sick. On his recovery, however, he could not relinquish the ex- 

 pectation of the profit he might make of the tusks ; and directed 

 his servants to conceal the circumstance carefully, and endeavour 

 to keep away all strangers by some pretext or other. It was not 

 till the fifth year, that the ice had melted sufficiently to disengage 

 the mammoth, when it fell over on its side upon a bank of sand. 

 Schoumachoff then cut off the tusks, which he bartered for goods 

 to the value of 50 rubles {. 11 5s.) with a Russian merchant. 

 Being satisfied with this, the carcase was left to be devoured by 

 the bears, wolves, and foxes, except what the Yakouts in the 

 neighbourhood cut off to feed their dogs. Previous to this, indeed, 

 he had a rude drawing made of it, which represents it with point- 

 ed ears, very small eyes, horse's hoofs, and a bristly mane ex- 

 tending along the whole of its back. In this it has the appearance 

 of something between a pig and an elephant. 



In 1806, Mr. Mich. Adams, of Petersburg, being at Yakoutsk, 

 fortunately heard of this circumstance, and repaired to the spot. 

 When he arrived there, the skeleton, nearly stripped of its flesh, 

 was entire, one of the fore-feet excepted. The vertebrae, from 

 the head to the os coccygis, one of the shoulderblades, the pelvis, 

 and the remaining three extremities, were still held firmly together 

 by the ligaments of the joints, and by strips of skin and flesh. 

 The head was covered with a dry skin. One of the ears, well 

 preserved, was furnished with a tuft of bristles. These parts 

 could not avoid receiving some injury during their removal to 

 Petersburg, a distance of 11000 wersts [6875 miles]: the eyes 

 however are preserved, and the pupil of the left eye is still dis- 

 tinguishable. The tip of the under lip was eaten away ; and the 

 upper being destroyed, the teeth were exposed. The brain, which 

 was still within the cranium, appeared dry. The parts least da- 

 maged were one of the fore-feet and one of the hind : these were 

 still covered with skin, and had the sole attached to them. 



According to the Tungoose chief, the animal was so corpulent 

 and well fed, that its belly hung down below the knee joints. It 

 was a male, with a long mane, but had neither tail nor trunk. 

 From the structure of the os coccygis however, Mr. Adams is 

 persuaded, that it had a short thick tail : and from the smallness 



