Lieut. Alexander 07i Lutus Naturoi. ^ 



was sitting at the door of my tent, which was pitched in a man- 

 goe tope or grove, and was enjoying the cool evening breeze, 

 (after the nice drying temperature of 105° and 110° during the 

 day), when I saw a singular being of about three feet in height 

 approaching me. He came up to where I sat, and, with a low sa- 

 laam, asked my pardon, and solicited charity. On a cursory 

 glance, he seemed to have his arms tied behind his back, but, 

 lipon desiring him to turn round, I found that he had been de- 

 prived of these members by the hand of Nature. 



This singular little man was arrayed in a pair of loose white 

 long drawers, with a sash ; his body was naked to the waist ; 

 over the left shoulder he wore the zunar (the sacred cord of the 

 Hindoos), and on his head was an ample turban. His age 

 seemed to be about thirty ; his head was of the usual size of an 

 adult, and fully developed, and well formed in every respect. 

 The scapula or shoulder-blade of the right arm was in its pro- 

 per place, but the arm itself was wanting. The left arm was 

 entire, including the os humerus, fore-arm and hand ; but, what 

 was most extraordinary, the whole arm was enveloped in the 

 skin of the trunk, no part of it being visible, except the third 

 phalanges of the fingers, which protruded close to the left pap. 

 This arm (the left) was doubled back, so that the elbow touch, 

 ed the vertebrae. No cicatrix was perceptible on any part of 

 the external cuticle, and the motions of the incarcerated arm at 

 the will of the abortion were most wonderful. The thorax was 

 very considerably distorted, and the abdomen was scarcely ob- 

 servable, as the short ribs rested on the pelvis. The left leg 

 was four inches shorter than the right ; and, to sum up the pe- 

 culiarities of this singular being, there were the rudiments of a 

 sixth toe on both his feet. Deprived of the use of his arms, he 

 was obliged to feed like a brute, by thrusting his head into the 

 vessel which contained his food ; and, unlike some individuals 

 of a nearly similar malformation, he derived no assistance from 

 his feet in performing any function, except in being able to run 

 with tolerable speed, but in a most ludicrous and surprising 

 manner. — Plate I. Fig. 1. 



II. In the Bazar at Arcot, tliere was a boy who, at a little 

 distance, might easily have been mistaken for a dog ; in fact, he 



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