Wichita eagle., 1888-08-24

Tie creature was match for lion or tiger,
and we began to feel very uneasy. By the
advice Of the head man we built several extra
fires and kept a sharp lookout
1.-THE fellow is evidently very angry" ex-
planned the old man. "You are white men,
and he is not pleased at your coming Per-
haps he has been told you are here to capture
him"
"But who could have told him?"
"He had cousin who Was turned into q
vulture for striking his father. and another
cousin who was turned into 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, but everything passed of
quietly until about midnight. Then sue
cession of shrieks and screams and roars
brought every man, woman and child out of
sleep with bound. had no other thought
than that the man wolf had seized one of the
sentinels, but as leaped out of the hut ono
called to me:
''Sahib, you have caught the beast in your
trap!'
1t was mile, as have told you, from 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 Quoted down, but
there was ne 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 voice as strong as lions,
and he was not quiet for two minutes at a
time. He roared, screamed, shrieked, Ia
nlented and growled and the wind brought
US every sound. He still had full head of
steam on when daylight came, and after a
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 tho hind foot in tho
trap, and hanging head downward from the
swaying sapling, took the courage out Of me
sooner than as if had met tiger face to
face 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
bushes by the roots. Re was as supple as a
monkey, and could double himself up and
tSNS@i S~1O SA"Ps Oot, oSAOAbe ID iO WIS, Ito
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 be bit
on that chain made us hold our breaths Had
it been of soft iron 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 we came near him he made such
tremendous effort to get away, or to get at
US, that all the natives fled 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 a cage,
got three or four ropes around him, and fn-
ally made him prisoner His foot and leg
were terribly swollen, and he made but little
resistance.
We now bad opportunity to look him over.
He was certainly a man wolf-that is, ma
tive child had been carried of when young
and brought up with tho wild beasts for
twenty years or more. This creature had q
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 Us q four footed animal He was indeed
a horrible looking sight, but the worst fea-
ture about him was his eyes. No true wild
beast ever saw through a more ugly pair.
There was villainous squirt 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-
turns. You will never get him away from
here"
We drew the cageto the village and gave
the beast food and water. BE readily &C.
cepted both, and his conduct was IS humble
as we could desire. He was hiding his time,
however. On the third day he 1ninutely ex-
amined the construction Of the cage and
tested every bar. He did this when he
thought he was unobserved. Onthe ffthday
he began to snari and growl and show his
temper, and on the sixth we started of With
him, the cage being dragged by twelve ma
tives. Everything went well up to noon,
when we stopped for rest and a bite to eat.
AS all were sitting down the man wolf sud-
denly sprang out of corner where he had
been sulhing, seized q bar in either hand, aid
with tremendous effort wrenched them out
One he retained for a weapon as be ieaped 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
tives 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 narry-NeW York Sun