Expedition to Siberia Joseph-Nicolas Delisle

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delisle s observatory in beryozovo (marked a.), continuation de l histoire générale des voyages, vol. 72 (1768)


delisle s cabinet de curiosité

on 30 june 1740, delisle visited monastery in tobolsk, in addition russian , old church slavonic manuscripts shown mammoth tusk , other bones d une grandeur extraordinaire . abbot recounted delisle previous year (1739) siberian merchant name of fugla, famous prodigious strength (he had fought , killed bear bare hands), further added fame when found near yeniseisk intact mammoth head d une grosseur étonnante. delisle himself indefatigable collector , during siberian expedition took every opportunity add cabinet de curiosité , bringing him not copies of manuscripts , mammoth bones had seen in tobolsk, objets hétéroclites, included items of ostyak costume, samoyed quiver, bark bucket, rare stones, , tobolsk porcelain ware.








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