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turn to the borders of the Lake Oncoul, he communicated this 
extraordinary discovery to his wife and some of his friends, but 
their reception of the news filled him with grief. ‘The old men 
related how they had heard their fathers say, that a similar mon- 
ster had been formerly discovered on the same peninsula, and 
that all the family of the person who liad discovered it had died 
soon afterwards. "The Mammoth was consequently regarded as 
an augury of future calamity, and the Tungusian was so muc 
alarmed that he fell seriously ill; but becoming convalescent, his 
first idea was the profit he might obtain by selling the tusks of 
the animal, which were of extraordinary size and beauty. 
summer of 1802 was less warm and more stormy than usual, and 
the icy shroud of the Mammoth had scarcely melted at all. At 
length, towards the end of the fifth year, (1803,) the desires of 
the Tungusian were fulfilled; for, the parts of the ice between 
the earth and the Mammoth having melted more rapidly than 
the rest, the plane of its support became inclined, and the enor- 
mous mass fell by its own weight on a bank of sand. Of this, 
two Tungusians who accompanied Mr. Adams were witnesses. 
In the month of March, 1804, Schumachoff came to his Mam- 
the Mammoth, Mr. Adams visited the spot, and “found the Mam- 
moth still in the same place, but altogether mutilated. The 
prejudices being dissipated because the Tungusian chief had re- 
covered his health, there was no obstacle to prevent approach to 
the carcass of the Mammoth; the proprietor was content with 
tremities, were still held together by the ligaments and by ooh 
of the skin. head was red witha skin; one of the 
was so fat, that its belly hung down 
knees.. This Mammoth was a male, with a long mane on the 
