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EXTINCT MONSTERS, 
The bones with which Mazuyer practised his famous deception 
were those of a Mastodon (see p. 196). 
Contemporary with the Mammoth in Siberia and in Northern 
and Western Europe, was the “ Woolly Rhinoceros ” (Rhinoceros 
tichorhinus). Its body has been found in frozen soil in Siberia, 
with the skin, the two horns, the hair, and even the flesh pre- 
served, as in the case of the Mammoth. It had a smooth skin 
without folds, covered with a fine curly and coarse hairy coat, 
to enable it to withstand the rigours of an arctic climate. The 
Fig. 55. — Head of Woolly Rhinoceros, partly restored by M. Deslongchamps. 
traveller Pallas gives a long account of one of these creatures, 
which was taken out of the ice, with its skin, hair, and flesh pre- 
served. The following is a brief summary of his narrative. The 
body was observed in December, 1771, by some Jakuts near the 
river Vilui, which discharges itself into the Lena below Jakutsk in 
Siberia, latitude 64° north. It lay in frozen sand upon the banks 
of the river. A certain Russian inspector had sent on to Irkutsk 
