SUCKLED BY A LIONESS. 2C>3 



these Hindoo children had been sent to mission 

 schools, and resided at them for several years. In 

 character they were mischievous ; absolutely refused 

 to work, never recovered their voices, or lost the 

 wild-beast smell. I know that many persons — 

 people of education and social standing — are per- 

 fectly certain of the truth of these strange stories. 

 In fact, I cannot say that I do not also believe in 

 them, when the foster-parent is a wolf. Certainly 

 it would be worth while, when another phenomenon 

 of this sort is captured, to have a board of capable 

 persons to investigate the case, and report their de- 

 cision to the scientific world. 



However, it is a widely different thing for a 

 human being to be suckled by a lioness, to being 

 nurtured by a wolf. Perhaps Sunday's narrative has 

 its origin from the Hindoo belief, but that, there 

 being no wolves in Africa, the next suitable wild 

 beast was selected in its place, viz., a lioness ; but 

 it would be interesting to know by what means, and 

 by what course, such a story could have reached 

 Zululand. 



It would be strange, after the passage of so many 

 years, that what was always supposed to be the 

 most arrant myth — viz., the suckling of Romulus 

 and Remus by a wolf — turned out to be a possi- 

 bility. 



In a very sombre part of the forest we came 

 across the evidence of the place having been just 



