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showing them our wonderful capture, they hastened to the 
stream, and it was amusing to hear how they chattered and 
talked over the sight. The first day I left them in quiet pos- 
session, but when, on the following, the ropes and chains gave a 
great jerk, a sign that the mammoth was quite freed from the 
earth, I commanded them to use their utmost strength and 
bring the beast to land. At length, after much hard work, in 
which the horses were extremely useful, the animal was brought 
to land, and we were able to roll the body about twelve feet 
from the shore. The decomposing effect of the warm air filled 
us all with astonishment. 
Picture to yourself an elephant with a body covered with 
thick fur, about thirteen feet in height, and fifteen in length, 
with tusks eight feet long, thick, and curving outward at their 
ends, a stout trunk of six feet in length, colossal limbs of one 
and a half feet in thickness, and a tail, naked up to the end, 
which was covered with thick tufty hair. The animal was fat, 
and well grown ; death had overtaken him in the fulness of his 
powers. His parchment-like, large, naked ears, lay fearfully 
turned up oyer the head ; about the shoulders and the back he 
had stiff hair, about a foot in length, like a mane. The long, 
outer, hair was deep brown, and coarsely rooted. The top of the 
head looked so wild, and so penetrated with pitch (und mit 
Pech so durchgedr ungen), that it resembled the rind of an old 
oak tree. On the sides it was cleaner (reiner), and under the 
outer hair there appeared everywhere a wool, very soft, warm, 
and thick, and of a fallow-brown colour. The giant was well 
protected against the cold. The whole appearance of the 
animal was fearfully strange and wild. It had not the shape of 
our present elephants. As compared with our Indian elephants, 
its head was rough, the brain-case low and narrow, but 
the trunk and month were much larger. The teeth were 
very-, powerful. Our elephant is an awkward animal ; but, 
compared with this Mammoth, it is as an Arabian steed to a 
coarse, ugly, dray horse. I could not divest myself of a feeling 
of fear,^as I approached the head; the broken, widely-open 
eyes gave the animal an appearance of life, as though it might 
move; in a moment, and destroy us with a roar The 
bad smell of the body warned us that it was time to save of it 
what we could, and the swelling flood; too, bid us hasten. First 
of all we cut off the tusks, and sent them to the cutter. Then 
the people tried to hew the bead off, but notwithstanding their 
good will, this was slow work. As the belly of the animal was 
cut open the intestines rolled out, and then the smell was so 
dreadful that I could not overcome my nauseousness, and was 
obliged to turn away. But I had the stomach separated, and 
brought on one side. It was well filled, and the contents in- 
