ELEPHANT OF THE LENA. 141 
consumed the few provisions they had, they 
separate cheerfully, carrying each other’s com- 
pliments to their acquaintance, and trusting to 
Providence for another meeting. The Tungusians 
inhabiting the coast, differ from the former in 
having more regular and fixed habitations, and 
in collecting together at certain seasons for fishing 
and hunting. During winter, they inhabit cottages 
built side by side, so that they form villages. 
“ It is to one of these annual trips that we owe 
the discovery of the Mammoth. Towards the 
end of the month of August, when the fishing 
season in the Lena is over, Schumachof generally 
goes with his brothers to the peninsula of Tamut, 
where they employ themselves in hunting, and 
where the fresh fish of the sea offer them a whole- 
some and agreeable food. In 1799, he had con- 
structed for his wife some cabins on the banks of 
the lake Oncoul, and had embarked to seek along 
the coasts for Mammoth horns. One day he 
perceived among the blocks of ice a shapeless 
mass, not at all resembling the large pieces of 
floating wood which are commonly found there. 
To observe it nearer, he landed, climbed up a 
rock, and examined this new object on all sides, 
but without being able to discover what it was. 
“ The following year, (1800,) he found the 
carcase of a Walrus ( Tric/iecus Rosmarus .) He 
perceived, at the same time, that the mass he had 
