Description of the Hemains of a Mammoth . 
marked two similar pieces, wliich he afterwards found 
were the feet of the mammoth. About the close of the 
next summer, the entire hank of the animal and one of 
the tusks had distinctly come out from under the ice* 
Upon his return to the shores of the lake Qnroul, he 
communicated this extraordinary discovery to his wife 
and some of his friends; but their manner of regarding 
the subject overwhelmed him with grief. The old men 
related on this occasion, that they had heard their fore- 
fathers say that a similar monster had formerly shown 
itself in the same peninsula, and that the whole family of 
the person who discovered it had become extinct in a 
very short time. The mammoth, in consequence of this, 
was unanimously regarded as auguring a future calami- 
ty, and the Toungouse chief felt so much inquietude from 
it, that he fell dangerously ill ; but becoming well again, 
his first ideas suggested to him the profit he might gain 
by selling the tusks of this animal, which were of an ex- 
traordinary size and beauty. He therefore gave orders 
to conceal carefully the place where the mammoth was, 
and to remove all strangers from it under various pre- 
texts, charging at the same time some trusty depen- 
dents not to suffer any part of this treasure to be carried 
away. 
a But the summer being colder and more windy than 
usual, kept the mammoth sunk in the ice, which scarcely 
melted at all that season. At last, about the end of the 
fifth year afterwards, the ardent desires of Schoumachoff 
were happily accomplished : the ice which inclosed the 
mammoth having partly melted, the level became sloped, 
and this enormous mass, pushed forward by its own. 
weight, fell over upon its side on a sand-bank., Of this 
two Toungouse s were witnesses who accompanied me in 
my journey. In the month of March 1804, Schoumachoff 
came to bis mammoth, and having got his horns cut off, 
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