140 ELEPHANT OF THE LENA. 
the Frozen Sea, towards Borchaya and Nytjansk, 
and for this purpose, they assemble in large troops 
towards the autumn.* To follow the chase of 
these animals with greater success, the Tungusians 
have divided all the country of this peninsula into 
departments separated by paling. They alarm 
the rein deer by loud cries, and by dogs which 
pursue them. The rein deer frightened by this 
noise, run into the enclosures of the palings, 
where they are easily taken ; all those which try 
escape on the ice, are shot by the hunters. 
“ The third day of our journey, we pitched 
our tents at some hundred paces distant from the 
Mammoth, on a hill called Kembisaga-Shaeta.” 
Schumachof related to me nearly in these terms 
the history of the discovery of the Mammoth. 
“ The Tungusians, who are a wandering 
people, remain but a little time in the same place. 
Those who live in the forests, often take ten years 
or more to travel over the vast regions between 
the mountains : during this time, they do not once 
return to their habitations. Each family lives 
isolated, and knows no other society. If, during 
the course of several years, two friends meet by 
chance, they then communicate to each other 
their adventures, their different successes in hunt- 
ing, and the number of skins they have obtained. 
After having passed some days together, and 
* Sauer Beschreibung dcr Billingscben Reise, p. 130. 
