A Live Mastodon.

Pahiatua Star and Eketahuna Advertiser, Volume 2, Issue 174, 21 February 1888, Page 2

A Live Mastodon.

The Juneau (Alaska) Free Press says the Stick Indians, near the headwaters of th" White River, positively assert that within the last five years an animal has been seen by them which, according to the description, must be a mastodon. One of the Indians said that while hunting became across an immense track sunk several inches in the moss and larger around than a barrel. The Indian followed up the curious trail, and at last came in full view of Ins game. These Indians as a class are the bravest of hunters, hut the immense proportions of this new kind of game filled the hunter with fear, and lie took to swift and immediate (light. Ho described it as being larger than the post trader's store, with great shining, yellowish tusks, and a mouth large enough to swallow him at a single gulp. He said the animal was undoubtedly the same as were indicated by tlic lingo bones scattered over that section. The fact that other hunters have told of seeing this monster, and the numerous bones found in that section, give a certain probability to the story. On Forty-Mile Creek bones can bo found projecting partly from the sands and among the driftwood along the stream. One ivory tusk projects nine feet out of a sandbank and is larger around than a man's body. A single tooth would be a good load for a strong man to carry.