; H. H. Howorth—The Mammoth in Siberia. 497 
a Commission, consisting of the well-known names of Brandt, 
Helmersen, Schrenck, and Baer (id. 239), and it was determined to 
send an expedition to recover, if possible, the skeleton and other 
remains of the Mammoth, and to take a plaster cast of his shape. 
This expedition was put under the command of F. Schmidt, who 
was ordered to set out in February, 1866. When he arrived in 
Siberia, he found that the carcase he was in search of had decayed. 
Kaschkaref had visited the place in the spring of 1865, and found 
some bones and a piece of decayed hide only (id. 513). The place 
where the remains were found was on the Yambu, a small lake 
from which springs the river Gyda (id. 521), about 100 versts to 
the north-west of Maksimof Myss. The tundra about there is quite 
naked, alder bushes and grass grow apparently near the rivers. 
Schmidt describes the land of the Yuraks as a veritable mine of 
Mammoths’ remains, and affirms his belief that the specimen in the 
Moscow Museum came from there, from the Simovie Krestowskaya 
close to the Polar Sea. Schmidt heard of, another skeleton of a 
Mammoth with hair still remaining on its head, which lay on the 
Awamskian tundra, and exposed to the air (id. 516). He eventually 
secured a number of the bones, and a quantity of the hair of the 
former specimen (id. xi. 80-90). 
In the summer of 1867 another Mammoth. with its flesh and hide 
intact, was found about 100 versts from the Polar Sea, between the 
rivers Indigirka and Alaseya, and on a small river called Kovschet- 
schaja, whose mouth is about 50 or 60 versts from that of the 
Alaseya. It was found by a Tungus named Foka, who spent the 
summer there in search of Mammoth bones. Its flesh, it was 
reported, had been eaten by wild animals. This discovery was very 
important, from the place where it was made, which was about the 
same meridian as New Siberia; it was one and a half day’s journey 
north of the limit of trees, and about five days’ journey from the 
Polar Sea. Schrenck says that the Mammoth’s body referred to by 
Sarytschef as having been found in 1787 was found on the Alaseya; 
while Kosmin, a companion of Wrangell, who made a journey in 
1821 along the Polar Sea from the Kolyma to the Indigirka, passed 
the River Uschiwaja, called Pila by the Jukagirs, which is about 
half-way between those two rivers, found a collection of Mammoths’ 
bones which had been washed out of the banks by the undermining 
of the river (Bull. St. Pet. Acad. vol. xvi. p. 153). 
A Yakut, who was sent by the Baron Von Maydell to find the 
remains of this Mammoth, found only a leg, with one end sticking 
in the ground, but without flesh or hide, covered with skin only on 
the hoof; he also found a piece of the hide with hair still on it 
the size of half a horse’s skin. 
Meanwhile news arrived at Nishni Kolymsk of the discovery of 
another Mammoth’s body. Of this but the skeleton remained; it 
lay some fathoms from the right bank of the River Kolyma, 200 
versts above Nishni Kolymsk, out on the open ground (id. 155 and 
156), 
Maydell noted the spot where the first of the three Mammoths had 
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