MAMMOTHS AND MASTODONS 125 



in toward the beach. Then he saw that it was a 

 Mammoth. Yet all he did was to cut off the crea- 

 ture's tusks that he might sell them. 



Two years after this, a man by the name of Adams 

 saw this same Mammoth still lying on the beach. 

 But by this time little was left of it except the 

 skeleton. For the natives had fed the flesh to 

 their dogs and what they had not used the wolves 

 and bears had torn from the bones and devoured. 

 The ground all round the skeleton was tramped 

 down by these wild animals. Mr. Adams searched 

 beneath their tracks until he found some of the 

 Mammoth's skin and hair. He then took the skele- 

 ton and these fragments of skin and hair to St. 

 Petersburg, a distance of 7330 miles. There the 

 skeleton was mounted and placed in the museum of the 

 St. Petersburg Academy, where it may still be seen. 



In this same museum is another Mammoth, which 

 was discovered as far north as the Arctic Circle. 

 The position in which this animal was found showed 

 that he had slipped into a deep crevice and had 

 died while trying to make his way to safety. He 

 had been eating grass just before he fell and when 



