The Lambertville record., 1888-08-15
THE MAN WOLF.

! jungles and foothills to the north OF Benares
| we heard Of a man wolf On two former oc
casions we had received like reports, but
had given little attention to them The
superstitious natives Of India have many
strange beliefs. One of them is that q
| brother who has murdered brother turns
into man wolf, and roams the jungles 10(
years as a penance. While they hold this
animal in fear and terror as well they may
they reason that if he is killed, another rela
tive Of the family must take his place and
| serve out the remainder OF his sentence
| Therefore, while they would talk to us oi
these monsters, they were always very care
| full not to locate them and bring them into
danger. We had long before made up our
minds that there was nothing SO very queer
In finding wild man in the jungles Of India.
| Children are carried Off by semi-wild men OF
wild animals almost daily, and even the
civilized countries have their wild men roam
ing through the forests. We were willing to
pay round sum for the capture of man
wolf, believing he would turn out to be only
a wild man, but at the same time a greater
curiosity than gorilla.
We had been making our headquarters in
a village for several days. batting our traps
for hyenas and having natives on the lookout
sefpctltSs WneAa Olto lltu-aIUeEnOOn ROt
into hammock slung between two trees on
the outskirts of the village and dropped of
to sleep. My two white men were already
asleep In hammocks some distance away, and
such Of tho natives as were not out for us
were lying by TO pass the heat OF the day.
There were two or three children playing at
the door of a hut near me, but making little
or no noise. 1t was as quiet as il q spell had
haar. MI Ood f,nba ark Il k,A
not slept over half an hour when a mosquito
bit me on the cheek and started me up. lay
on my right side, and through the meshes Of
the hammock could see the edge of the jun
gle, about forty rods away. Tho children
were still at play, and were hundred feet
nearer tho jungle than / was. Almost as
soon as opened my eyes saw dark object
leap from tho cover of the thicket to the
shelter of single bush ON the cleared
| ground. 1t looked to me in the brief glimpse
l had like gorilla l measured the leap
aftcrward with tape line, and it was
twenty y-three feet
did not start up, but rubbed my eyes
wide open to identify the strange creature.
! It had covered until / could see nothing but
| black spot, and it was two or three min
utes before it moved again. Then it sud-
denly leaped into view, bounded for the
children exactly as monkey leaps and be-
fore could call out it had seized little boy
about two and half years old, and was re-
treating with him. It was on its hind legs,
both arms around the child, and running
with great swiftness The body was naked
and hairy, but / was convinced that it was
that Of a human being. / yelled out, and
the creature whirled about, raised the child
on higli and, with shrill scream Of anger,
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When the trap had bees set no eye could
detect anything suspicious around the spot.
and we felt certain that the creature would
get into trouble II he passed that way. When
we could do no more we retired to the vii
lage, about mile away. 1t was about sun
down when we arrived, and we were just in
time to see a wonderful proceeding. A large
and savage looking hyena came out Of the
jungle and shifted and snuffed and growled
at us from distance Of about twenty rods.
We refrained from shooting, for fear the
reports would frighten the man wolf away,
and while hundred Of us stood gazing at the
beast another suddenly appeared. 1t was
the same creatute saw from the hammock.
'sIt is the man wolfr' moaned score sof
natives in chorus, and at least a dozen of them
siunk away into their huts.
But the beast had not scome to disturb us.
He had evidently been tracking the hyena,