Met this “extinct” giant in the twentieth century. Western Siberia. Shallow lake Leushi. After the celebration of Pentecost came back in a woodenboat, boys and girls, played the accordion. And suddenly, just 300 meters from them out of the water rises a huge hairy carcass. Some of the menshouted: ”Mammoth!” Boats huddled together, and people fear watched as the three-meter above the water appeared a few moments carcassswinging in the waves. Then hairy dived and disappeared into the abyss.Not only in Siberia can be found mammoth. In 1899 the American magazine “Mac Klyurs Magazine” was published a note about a meeting with a mammoth in Alaska. When the author H. Tyukman traveled in 1890 on the rivers of St. Michael and the Yukon, he had long lived in a small Indian tribe and I heard there’s a lot of interesting stories from the old Injun Joe. Joe once saw a picture in the book of an elephant. He came in excited and said that the animal is seen on the river Porkyupayn. Here in the mountains of the country was that the Indians called Ti Kai-Koya (trace the devil). Joe and his son went to shoot the beaver. After a long journey over the mountains they came out into the vast, overgrown with trees, a valley with a large lake in the middle. For two days the Indians have made a raft and crossed the long, like a river, lake. That there is something Joe and I saw a huge animal that looked like an elephant: “He poured water on himself from his long nose, and before his head sticking out two teeth up to ten guns each, curved and sparkling white. His hair was black and shiny and just hung on the sides of beams of weeds on the branches after the flood … But now it lay in the water and ran through the reed waves reached our armpits, such was the surge. “