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his own Eyes, agreeing with the Siberian Tradition, 
that the Maman Bead dies upon coming to Light. 
The fame Author affirms, from the Report, as he fays, 
of credible People, That there have been fometimes 
found Horns, Jaw-bones and Ribs, with freffi Fieffi 
and Blood flicking to them. The fame is confirmed 
by John Bernard Muller , in his Account of the 
OJUacks *, who adds. That the Horns in particular 
have been found fometimes all bloody at the broken 
End , which is generally hollow , and filled with a 
Matter like concreted Blood ; that they find, toge- 
ther with thefe Teeth, or Horns, as he calls them, the 
Skull and Jaw-bones with the Grinders flill flicking 
in them, all of a monflrous Size:, and that he himfelf, 
with fome of his Friends, hath feen a Grinder weigh- 
ing four and twenty Pounds, and Defter ; that the In- 
habitants make divers Sort of Works of thefe Teeth, 
and that they are moflly to be met with in the cold- 
eft Places of Siberia , as for Inflance, Jakutsky , Bere - 
fowa , Mangafea , and Ohder. He like wife gives the De- 
fcription of one of thefe Animals, from the Accounts 
of feveral Perfons, who allured him, That they had 
feen them in the Caverns of the high Mountains be- 
yond Berefiowa : But as this Defcription hath very 
much the Face of a Fable, J forbear inferting it here. 
The Author of the ‘Prefent State of Ruffia f ob- 
ferves, that fome of the Swedi/h Pnfoners banifhed 
into Siberia , got their Livelihood by turning Snuff- 
boxes out of thefe Teeth ^ and in another Place J he 
mentions them among the Siberian Commodities, of 
which the Czar hath the Monopoly. 
* Ibid, pag, 52. j Vol. I. pag y 12. t Pag. 78. 
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