Evening capital journal. (Salem, Or.) 1888-1893, 1892-08-23


In November, 1872. saw at Secun
dra, near Agra. in northern India
a boy that had been brought VI
among the wolves. / published al
account of his appearance at th'
time, and some further facts which
have lately learned concerning min
will also be of interest.
He was found in 1867. Some men
passing through an unfrequentet
Jungle, suddenly came upon child
apparently five or six years old, with
out clothes and running upon his
hands and feet. They tried to catch
him, but he disappeared in hole
which was evidently the lair of some
wild beast.
Unable to unearth him by Digging
and not daring to go into the hole
themselves, they reported the fact to
the magistrate of the district, who
directed them to start a fire at the
mouth of the den and smoke out its
inmates of whatever sort they might
be. The fire was started, when pres
emily a large she wolf dashed out of
the hole, scattering the fire and
speeding far away for safety. She
was soon followed by the boy whom
the men had seen before, and whom
they now caught with difficulty.
He was evidently a child Of human
parentage, but with the appetites and
ways of the wolf. He could not walk
erect, be was without clothes, he had
no language but whine, he would
eat nothing but raw flesh and would
lap his drink like wolf. Put into
an inclosure, he would lie in cor
ner during the day and at night
would prowl about picking up bones
and ravenously gnawing them.
After keeping him aw hile the mag
istrate brought him to an orphanage
at Secundra, under the care of the
Church Missionary society. where ho
was kindly received and cared for.
and where he has since been, an OBJ.
ject of unceasing wonder to the many
who have seen him there.
He has been taught to walk erect
though he does this awkwardly-
TO wear clothes, to drink like a hui
man being and to use fork and
spoon. He has lost his appetite for
raw flesh, and he has no longer any
disposition to escape. He has also
been taught to do a little work, but
he does not like to work. He has
become wholly inoffensive and min.
giles freely with the children, among
whom he has his favorites.
He evidently hears well and under
stands many things which are told
him, but he has never uttered word
d. shown any wish to speak, though |
many efforts have been made to
leach him articulation.
He is now, as far as can be judged,
about thirty years of age. His fore
1ead is low, but his features are reg
liar, and his eyes, though wild and
have not an idiotic look.
His jaws do not protIude, and his
eeth are regular and human. His
rms, legs and body differ from those
# an ordinary human being only so
ar as incident to his habits of loco
notion when he was first found.
How far he has ever become con-
cious of moral or religious truth it
> impossible to say. The nearest
Ipproach he has shown to something
Ike an apprehension Of an unseen
world was in connection with the
cath of one who cared for him and
t whom he was very fond.
At the funeral, as the body was
owered into the grave, the poor boy
ooked wistfully at the coffin and
hen at the bystanders, evidently
what it all meant BY
estlres and other signs, by feigning
D be sick and dying, and then point.
lg downward and upward, the by
tanders seemed to awaken in him
ome strange thought of something
'hich could not be seen, and after
ard, when sick himself, he lay
own and closed his eyes and pointed
} the earth and sky.
From a friend in India, who has re- '
emily seen him, learn that he is
ill living at the orphanage where
0 was first taken. Rev. j. III. Seeley
] Congregationalist. {