The Columbian. [volume] (Bloomsburg, Pa.) 1866-1910, 1905-08-31
THE MAN WOLF Of INDIA
Legend of RomuluS and RemuS
Supported by His Capture.
THE ONLY ONE CAPTURED
He Knows Animal Language, But
Cannot Talk to Human Beings
Once, After Meeting Baboon He
Was Able to Warn the Men Of
Approach of Tiger.

Approach Of Tiger
A real Mowgli has been captured in
India-a man wolf, who speaks no Ian.
guage, but grunts snarls, growls and
howls, who walks on hands and feet,
and who was nurtured as a child by
wolf.
There are wolf reared children in
India. Much valuable and Trustworthy
evidence has been collected to estab-
lish the fact, so long denied as I'M
worthy OF credence, that human babies
have been carried off and nurtured by
wolves.
The jungle folks OF India live in
forest villages in lower Bengal. They
belong to the Dhavidians, Kronds,
Kashmeres, Parsis and Khasis tribes.
Many of the people OF the Dravidian
tribes and castles acquire knowledge
of wild animals which is astounding.
No wonder that Kiplng made Kowgli
talk with the elephant, the tiger and
the wou.
The man wolf OF India Is usually
supposed to have been dragged by
she wolf from his home while a baby
and carried into the jungle The
strange, wild foster mother moved by
pity, would nurture the helpless child.
When the child grew older it knew no
other home than the jungle. The boy
learned ts find his own food. He
knew no language except that of the
jungle. He learned to live with the
animals. He knew the ways of the
tiger and the elephants, as well as
of the fox and of the serpent. AS he
grew to manhood he was wild. naked
creature fearing man as an animal
Officers of the Indian geographic cal
survey have evidence OF the discov-
cry and capture of a real man wolf
He was found in the jungle of lower
Bengal and sent in to the military
post, at first wild and untamed, after
wards becoming docile but suspicious.
This man wolf apparently was
twenty years old He walked or ran
on the ball Of the foot, with the heel
raised and the knee bent. His hands
were bent back ct 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 in
the dark. His ear could detect sounds
uDnoticed by white men. Often, while
sitting in a group around a campfire
the man wolf would raise its head. it's
nostrils dilatng and smiling the air.
Then it would stealthily creep into the
jungle. Officers and soldiers following
would always find a tiger or a buffalo.
And yet up to the time the man wolf
had scented the intruder and heard
the rusting in the grass of its foot
steps its presence was unsupported.
Again, the man wolf in walking
through the forests with the British
officers, seemed to be able to converse
with the monkeys that swung and
chattered by hundreds in the trees.
At one time a large baboon swung
from branch of huge tree, and. as
the man wolf turned. and. pointing
toward the jungle made the English
officers understand that tiger was
following close upon them, waiting for
an opportunity to attack. The Off
GERS sprang into the jungle and found
and shot large striped beast, one of
the largest they had ever seen. And
the only warning they had had OF its
presence was what the baboon had
told the man wolf.
When first captured the man wolf
would not eat food given him by the
English officers. When offered food
he would smell OF it, run 1t over and
over In his hands, and reject 1t. The
English never knew how he got his
meals, for he sought them in the for
est alone. In time, however, he learn
ed to eat the white mans food, but
even then he would not eat at a table
Living in corner Of room given up
TO him, his bedding Of rags and straw,
for he would have no other, he would
carry his food to this pile and hide 1t,
sometimes for days. Then he would |
drag 1t out and eat it, as dog or
a wolf might.
OF course, this man wolf could not
talk He understood whatever was
said to him just as a dog might under I
stand its master.
He always slept in his straw bed,
curled up as nearly like a dog or .
WOlI as possible his hHeeS always /
were drawn up to his chin and his .
head bent as he slept He wore
clothes when given them, but soon re-
duced them to rags.
Natives Of the village told the Eng
lish officers that the parents Of the
man wolf lost him when he was
baby and that he was carried off by
wolf. They said he always lived in
the jungle with the animals and that
ne would come into the village occa-
sionally and then only for short
stay The natives persisted in their
belief that the man wolf could talk
with all the animals.
But the ways of civilization proved
his death. He lost the vigor of out
door life and soon fell victim to con-