®eive the Siberian mammoth. 229 
it was. Towards the end of the following 
801, he could distinctly see tliat it was the frozen 
3 D enormous animal, the entire flank of which, 
'te, j® of its tusks, had become disengaged from the 
to , ®°'^^equence of the ice heginning to melt earlier, 
tl,|j Sfeater degree than usual, in 1803 , the tilth year 
l‘seiw ®'®covery, the enormous carcase became entirelv 
Sk ‘"'d fell down from the ice-crag on a sand- 
‘*'e Hi “’’'['■ng part of the coast of the Arctic Ocean. In 
Sy *' 'Jt March of that year, the Tungusian carried 
t\Tr^ ^ 1*1 jZ.L^mr « Vkl ,-h/^ 
*'V,1y 'Jt 
t'eii tusks, which he sold for fifty rubles, about 
Tii,^PotUHis sterling. 
**tl(l-\)g {^^ts afterwards this animal still remained on the 
\ tji where it had fallen from the ice ; but its body 
Ssidg’^^reatly mutikted. The peasants had taken away 
r 'vild quantities of its flesh to feed their dogs ; and 
tiiii 
\v,. 
istoij ^ ‘'tiimals, particularly the white bears, had also 
titc_ carcase ; yet the skeleton remained quite 
^ spill uf the fore legs was gone. The en- 
still’,*® pelvis, one shoulder-Wade, and three legs, 
l^ld together by their ligaments, and by some 
die skin ; ami the other shoulder-blade was 
tlrigj® distance. The head remained, covered by 
i liable *1'® pupil of the eyes was still distin- 
j 6<iod j ■ The brain also remained within the skull, but 
■ . ^lii'unk and dried up ; and one of the ears was 
j ’ly lia^"' P'^'^ssiwation, still retaining a tuft of strong 
u"’, upper lip was a good deal eaten away, 
ti'**’'ktly lip was entirely gone, so that the teeth were 
Oil The animal was a male, and had a long 
liti,.^''*illent 
lif. 
->•11 -r 
On The animal was a 
,Ahe‘>neck. 
( k teij,'*? 'V'is extremely thick and heavy, and as much 
,\p' avvav'"*'^ required tlie exertions of ten men to 
tlig' ' which they did with considerable difficulty 
^tfithai *l''q’ pounds weight of the hair and bristles 01 
^ Wf*r<a ^..4.1 1 T *1,^ -..^ 4 . ..^^A Ix'Tvinci 
trat,, gathered from the wet sand -bank, having 
Itli.^^tiiio' Pl®^ into the niiul hv the while bears, while 
the carcase. 
into the mud by the white bears. 
The hair was of three distinct 
I > on» „ 'v<i^ 
l*aif oth • ®°*'^'®fing of stiff black bristles, a foot or more 
a r ^Itinner bristles, or coarse flexible 
'*h%K, ®u*lish-brown colour : and the third of a coarse 
