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together, but in few instances some primeval Landseer 

 graved on slate, ivory, or reindeer antler a sketchy out- 

 line of the beast, somewhat impressionistic perhaps, but 

 still, like the work of a true artist, preserving the salient 

 features. We see the curved tusks, the snaky trunk, 

 and the shaggy coat that we know belonged to the mam- 

 moth, and we may feel assured that if early man did not 

 conquer the clumsy creature with fire and flint, he yet 

 gazed upon him from the safe vantage point of some 

 lofty tree or inaccessible rock, and then went home to 

 tell his wife and neighbors how the animal escaped be- 

 cause his bow missed fire. Later the artists of the Cro- 

 Magnon race depicted him time and again, singly and 

 in herds, on the walls of the caves of southern France 

 and Spain so that we have a pretty clear idea of the 

 animal, how he resembled and how he differed from his 

 nearest relative, the Asiatic Elephant, and with this 

 knowledge, plus the skill of the trained modern artist, 

 Mr. Knight has portrayed him on the walls of the Hall 

 of the Age of Man. That man and mammoth lived 

 together in North America is uncertain; so far there is 

 no evidence to show that they did, although the absence 

 of such evidence is no proof that they did not. That 

 any live mammoth has for centuries been seen on the 

 Alaskan tundras is utterly improbable, and on Mr. C. 

 H. Townsend seems to rest the responsibility of having, 

 though quite unintentionally, introduced the Alaskan 

 Live Mammoth into the columns of the daily press. It 

 befell in this wise: Among the varied duties of our 

 revenue marine is that of patrolling and exploring the 

 shores of arctic Alaska and the waters of the adjoining 

 sea, and it is not so many years ago that the cutter 

 Corwin, if memory serves aright, held the record of 

 farthest north on the Pacific side. On one of these 

 northern trips, to the Kotzebue Sound region, famous 



