The Lambertville record., 1888-08-15

ne nad cousin who was turned into q
vulture for striking his father, and another
cousin who was turned into a serpent for
cursing our faith. Either one may have car.
ried the man wolf the news"
We placed sentinels on the wath when
ready to turn in, bet everything passed of
quietly until about midnight. Then q sue
cession of shrieks and screams and roars
brought every man, woman and child out Of
sleep with a bound. / had no other thought
than that the man wolf had seized one of the
sentinels, but as leaped out Of the hut one
called to me:
"Sahib, you have caught the beast in your
trapIn
Il was mile, as have told you, fron, the
village to the spot where we had set the trap
and yet the screams seemed close at hand
When the news went round that there was
no danger the village soon quieted down. but
there was no further sleep for any one.
Whether caught or not, the creature seemed
fastened to one locality for the remainder of
the night, and of all the proceedings I ever
knew wild beast to engage in his were the
worst. He had a voice as strong as n lions
and he was not quiet for two minutes at n
time. He roared, screamed, shrieked. Ia
mented and growled, and the wind brought
US every sound. He still had full head of
steam on when daylight came, and after
hasty breakfast party of twenty of us
moved in his direction. He probably heard
us coming, for his anger was freshly aroused
and pretty soon we could hear him tearing at
the bushes
am free to say that the first sight of the
man wolf, caught by the hind foot in the
trap, and hanging head downward from the
swaying sapling, took the courage out of me
sooner than as If had met tiger face to
lace on the path. he hung about three feet
from the earth, and as far as he could reach
In every direction he had pulled up the
pushes by the roots. He was as supple as a
monkey, and could double himself up and
reach the trap, but, strong as he was, he
could not spring the jaws open and release
his foot. There was a foot Of chain before
he could get to the rope, and the way he bit
on that chain made us hold our breaths. Had
1t been Of soft iron l have no doubt he would
have cut it In two. He had been caught
when we first heard him scream out and had
been suspended for over four hours. You
would have thought he would be exhausted
with pain and struggling, but he was not.
As soon as wc came near him he made such
tremendous effort to get away, or to get at
us, that all the natives fed in terror
We quickly understood that we could do
nothing with the beast until he had lost his
strength and temper, and we returned to the
village and left him hanging. All that day
he yelled out every two or three minutes,
and all that night we heard from him at in-
tervals. On the second morning he was still
ugly, but late In the afternoon hunger and
pain mastered him. We brought up q cage,
got three or four ropes around him, and fin
ally made him prisoner. His foot and leg
were terribly swollen, and he made but little
resistance.
We now had opportunity to look him over.
He was certainly man wolf-that Is, a ma
tive child had been carried OFF when young
and brought up with the wild beasts for
twenty years or more. This creature had a
human face and form, but the body was COW
cred with coarse hair, the teeth were long,
the hands out Of shape, and he had learned to
go as four footed animal He was indeed
horrible looking sight, but the worst fea-
ture about him was his eyes. No truo wild
beast ever saw through a more ugly pair.
There was villainous squint to them and
the balls seemed to be afame We were con-
graduating ourselves on his easy capture
when the head man replied;
"Wait bit. Wait until his strength re-
here
We drew the cage to the village and gave
the beast food and water. He readily ac-
cepted both, and his conduct was as humble
as we could desire. He was biding his time,
however. On the third day he minutely ex-
amined the construction Of the cage and
tested every bar He did this when he
thought he was unobscrved. On the fifth day
he began to snarl and growl and show his
temper, and ON tho sixth we started Off with
him, the cage being dragged by twelve ma
tives. Everything went well up to noon,
when we stopped for rest and bito to eat.
As all were sitting down the man wolf sud-
denly sprang out OF a corner where he had
been sulking, seized a bar in either hand, and
with tremendous effort wrenched them out.
One he retained for weapon as he leaped to
the earth. 1t was SO sudden that no one was
prepared. He did not seek escape, but re-
venge, and before we could pick up our guns
and open fire he had killed three of the ma
tiyes and severely wounded two others He
was still laying about him screaming with
rage when one of the white men gave him a
charge Of buckshot and ended his career He
had struck only single blows, and yet each
one had been hard enough to cripple or kill.
But for our guns he would have killed every
man in the party.-New York Sun.