The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1904-04-27
IS REAL man Wolf
Mowghi Is Captured in JungIes
of India
GRUNTsSNARLSANDHOW
Was. Nutured as Child by a
She-WoIf.

A real Mowgli has been captured in
India-a man-wolf, who spoke no Ian
| guage but grunts, snarls and howls, who
! walked on hands and feet and who was
nurtured as a child by a wolf.
There are wolf-reared children in India
! Much valuable and trustworthy evidence
| has been collected to establish the fact
so long denied as unworthy of credence
that human babies have been carried of
| and nurtured by wolves. This has long
| been a Traditional tradition that has
| lived ever since the story of Romulus and
| Remus. Although the belief has been
scoffed at, there remains the fact that il
is generally believed in India to this day.
The jungle folk of India live in forest
villages in lower Bengal. They belong
| TO the Dravidans, Kronds. kashmeres,
! Parsis and Khasis tribes Many of the
people of the Dravidian tribes and castles
acquire a knowledge of wild animals
which is astounding No wonder that
| Kipling made Mowgli talk with the ele-
I plant, the tiger and the wolf.
| The man-woIf of India in usually sup
posed to have been dragged by a she
| wolf from his home while baby and
| carried into the jungle. The strange,
wild foster mother, moved by pity, would
nurture its helpless captive. When the
! child grew older it knew no other home
than the jungle. The boy learned TO find
his own food. He knew no language ex-
cept that of the jungle. He learned to
live with the animals. He knew the ways
of the tiger and the elephant, as well as
n ha no hc no "
TO manhood ne was a wild, naked crea-
| ture. fearing man an animal
Officers of the India geographical sur
vey have evidence of the discovery and
capture of a real man-wolf He was
found in the jungle of lower Bengal and
sent to the military post, at first wild
and unframed, afterward becoming docile
but suspicious.
This man-wolf apparently was 20 years
old He walked or ran on the ball of the
foot, with the heel raised and the knees
bent. His hands were bent back at the
wrist, showing that he was accustomed
to walking and running about on hands
and feet.
This man. wolf-so far as known the
only one ever captured-could see I'm the
dark. His ear could detect sounds I'M
noticed by white men. Often, while sit
ting in a group around a campfire, the
man-wolf would raise it's head. its nos
trils diating and shifting the air. Then
it would stealthily creep into the jungle.
Officers and soldiers following would al
ways find a tiger or a buffalo. And yet
up to the time the man-wolf had scented
the intruder and heard the rustling in
the grass of its footsteps it's presence
was unsupported.
The man-wolf seemed to know the
language of animals in captivity. He
could tell from the way vulture how
cred in the air when a tiger was seek
ing its prey, and he could tell, also, by
the movements of the vulture, whether
the tiger had finished it's meal or was
still tearing at the carcass.
Again, the man-wolf in walking
through the forests with the British of
ficers, seemed to be able to converse
with the monkeys that swung and chat
tered by hundreds in the trees. At one
time large Daboon swung from a branch
of a huge tree, and, as the man. wolf
approached the baboon, showing no fear,
grunted and chartered in n state of ex-
and pointing toward the jungle, made
the English officers understand that
tiger was following close upon them,
waiting for an opportunity to attack. The
officers sprang into the jungle and found
and shot a huge striped beast, one of the
largest they had ever seen And the only
warning they had of it's presence was
what the baboon had told the man-wolf.
The man-wolf could see every foot
mark in the grass. 1t a snake had wrig-
gled its way through the jungle he could
tract its path over the grass, and even
tell by signs how long a snake it was
Ii a tigers paw had displaced a pebble
in the pathway the man-wolf would de-
tect it instantly.
When first captured the man would not
eat the food given him by the English of
fcers. When offered food he would
smell of it. turn it over and over in his
hands, and reject ii. The English never
knew how he got his meals for he sought
them in the forest alone. In time. how
food. but even then he would not eat
AZ a table. Living in corner of a room
given up TO him. his bedding of rags and
lot Ee NOuiu nave no otnTr, ne
would carry his food to this pile and hide
It. sometimes for days. Then he would /
drag ii out and eat it. as a dog or wolf |
might
OF course. this man-wolf could not |
talk. He understood whatever was said /
to him. just as a dog might understand /
its master. He never made friends with 1
the English officers, always leering at /
them and looking upon them askant.
and Of they spoke harshly TO him crawl
ing away to his corner.
He always slept in his straw bed.
curled Up as nearly like a dog or a wolf
as possible. His knees always were ]
drawn up to his chin and his head bent
as he slept He wore clothes when |
given him, but soon reduced them to
rags
Natives Of the village told the English |
officers that the parents Of the man
wolf lost him when he was a baby. and |
nat he was carried of by a WOLF. They |
said he always lived in the jungle with |
he animals. and that he would come
nto the villa &c occasionally. and then
'nly Cor a short stay. The natives per
sisted in their belief that the man-wolf
'Ould talk with all the acknowledgements
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