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Death must have certainly occurred very quickly, after it had fallen into a crevasse in the ice, for in its mouth, on the well-preserved tongue, and between its molars we found unchewed food. It consisted of leafy plants and grasses, of whom a few had seeds ...

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Now the walls of the stomach could be seen. They had a grayish-black, in some places, a dark-brown color, and were strongly decomposed. They had also been torn apart by carnivores, so that out of the rents everywhere the contents of the stomach were coming out. Of the vital intestines, heart, lung, liver, nothing was preserved. Carnivores have obviously eaten them up. Of the skin on the head, a few parts were still there, so the right cheek with the lower half of the eyelid, with a deep eye-lash-bag, and also the lower lip, which was covered with blackish stiff hair ...

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The well preserved flesh on the upper arm, on the upper thigh, and also on the pelvis, was covered with thick layers of fat. As long as it was still frozen, it had a rather delicious appearance of a dark-red color, just like frozen beef and horsemeat, but was more coarse-fibered. But as soon, as it thawed out, it changed its appearance completely. It became flabby and gray, and gave off a distasteful, stinking, ammonia-like smell, which went through everything.

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