$4 THE ELEPHANT. 



gives Tome curious facts on the fubjecT:, which 

 ilelerve to he here related. But M. Daubenton 



appears 



Siberia, and, among others, in Jakut/.k, where, after this pu- 

 tlicatibn, a Slufchewoi, called WaTilei Oltafow, entered into a 

 written obligation before Michaele Petrowitfch Ifmailow, cap- 

 tain-lieutenant of the guard, and Woywode of the place, to 

 travel into the interior cantons of Lena, in order to fearch for 

 the bones of the mammouth ; and he was defpatched thither 

 on the 23d of April the fame year. The following year, ano- 

 ther addrefled the Chancery of jakutzk, and reprefented, thai- 

 he had travelled along with his ion toward the fea, in quell of 

 the bones of the mammouth, and that, oppolite to Surjatoi 

 Nofs, about two hundred verfts from that place and the fea, he 

 found, in a turfy foil, which is common in thefe diftricts, the 

 head of a mammouth, with one of the horns adhering to it ; 

 and in the neighbourhood there was another hoin of the lame 

 animal, which had probably fallen off while the creature was 

 alive ; that, at a little diflance, they drew out of the earth ano- 

 ther head, with the horns, of an unknown animal ; that this. 

 head refembled that of an ox, only it had horns above its nofe ; 

 that, on account of an accident which befel .his eyes, he was 

 obliged to leave thefe heads where they were ; and that, ha- 

 ving heard of his Majeity's orders, h<- now begged to be fent 

 off with his ion toward Vit-junfkoje, Simowie, and the fea. His 

 demani I was complied with, and they were inilantly defpatched. 

 A third Siufchewoi of Jakutzk reprefented to the chancery, in 

 1724, that he made a voyage on the river Jeion ; that he was 

 happy enough to difcover, in a fteep bank of this river, a freih 

 head of the mammouth, with the horn and all its parts ; that 

 he drew it out of the earth, and left it where he could find it 

 again ; and that lie begged to be fent off with two men accu- 

 itcmed to filch refearches. The woywode accordingly confent- 

 ed. The Co'fTack foon after fet out on his journey, and found 

 the head, and all its parts, except the horns ; tor there re- 

 mained only the half of one horn, which he brought, along 

 with the head, to the chancery of Jakutzk. Some time after, 

 t two horns of the mammouth, which he aifo found 

 on the river Tefon. 



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