ioo IN THE INDIAN JUNGLE. 



With the favour of the C( Lord of the Wolves/' 

 as they called him, their flocks would, they said, 

 be safe from the ravages of these fierce beasts. 

 But Seeall disliked these offerings of the women, 

 and his eyes would glare so savagely at the sight 

 of the children that several attendants had to 

 watch him at such times to see that he did no 

 mischief. It required no stretch of imagination to 

 believe that he had often shared in a meal, with his 

 wolf companion, off a freshly-killed child, even if 

 he did not himself help to carry off the little 

 victim. The strange disappearance of his trail in 

 the softer parts of the track, noticed in the 

 account of the man-eating wolf, was accounted 

 for by his rising on his feet in such places, and 

 leaving marks undistinguishable from those of 

 other human beings. 



The natives declare that when a she-wolf has 

 lost her whelps, from accident or otherwise, she 

 experiences a soreness at the teats from the accu- 

 mulation of milk, and she then generally steals 

 a child. The sucking of the child relieves the 

 wolf, and the infant is thenceforth regarded as 

 a member of the family and shares the wolves' 

 den and food. When young whelps have been 

 noticed with a wolf-boy, they have always been 

 of a subsequent litter. 



When Lieutenant Cumberledge returned to 

 Bhopal, Seeall went with him, and I learnt 

 that he was afterwards sent to a missionary in 

 the North- West. I have reason to believe that he 

 was the original of Rudyard Kipling's Mowgli. 



