The Press., 1888-09-27
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 He had cousin who was turned into 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" 4
 We placed sentinels on the wath when ready to turn in, but everything passed off quietly until about midnight Then a suc- cesston 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: IA "' Frs
 'sSahib, you have caught the beast in your . trapr ...-.4. --.s ..--z- s
 It 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 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 voice as strong as a lions. and he was not quiet for two minutes at a time He roared, screamed, shrieked. la- mented and growled, and the wind brought us every sound. He still had full head of steam on when daylight came, and after a nasty 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 Sway1ng sapling, took the courage out of me sooner than as if I 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. 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 foot of chain before he could get to the rope, and the way he 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 oOA CAASOA olAu OCLupOAO duO we I0buTu6u CO 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 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 a man wolf-that is, na- tive child had been carried off when young and brought up with the wild beasts for twenty years or more. This creature had human face and form, but the body was cov- cred with coarse hair, the teeth were long, the hands out of shape, and he had learned to go four footed animal. He was indeed 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 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 a bit. Wait until his strength re- turns You will never get him away from 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 unobserved. On the fifth day he began to snarl and growl and show his temper, and on the sixth we started off with him, the cage being dragged by twelve na- tives Everything went well up to noon, when we stopped for regt and bite to eat As all were sitting down the man wolf sud- denly sprang out of corner where he had been sulking, seized bar in either hand, and with tremendous effort wrenched them out. One he retained for a weapon as he leaped to the earth. It was 80 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 na- 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 party.-New York Sun