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and other ornaments, which, are worn by the children, whom the 

 Wolves carry to their dens and devour, and are left at the 

 entrance of these dens. A party of these men lately brought to 

 our camp alive a very large Hyaena, which was let loose, and 

 bunted down by European officers and the clerks of my office. 

 One of the officers asked them whether this were not the reason 

 why they did not bring Wolves to the camp, to be hunted down 

 in the same way, since officers would give more for brutes that 

 ate children than for such as fed only on dogs or carrion. They 

 dared not deny, though they were afraid or ashamed to acknow- 

 ledge that it was ; I have myself no doubt that this is the reason, 

 and that they do make a good deal in this way, from the 

 children's ornaments, which they find at the entrance of the 

 Wolves' dens. In every part of India a great number of 

 children are every day murdered for the sake of their ornaments, 

 and the fearful examples that come daily to the knowledge 

 of parents, and the injunctions of the civil authorities, are 

 unavailing against this desire to see their young children dressed 

 out in gold and silver ornaments. 



There is now (Feb. 1850) at Sultanpoor, a boy who was found 

 alive in a Wolf's den, near Chandour, ten miles from Sultanpoor, 

 about two years and a half ago. A trooper, sent by the native 

 governor of the district to Chandour, to demand payment of 

 some revenue, was passing along the bank of the river, near 

 Chandour, about noon, when he saw a large female Wolf leave 

 her den, followed by three whelps and a little boy. The boy 

 went on all fours, and seemed to be on the best possible terms 

 with the old dam and the three whelps, and the mother seemed 

 to guard all four with equal care : they all went down to the 

 river and drank, without perceiving the trooper, who sat upon his 

 horse watching them ; as soon as they were about to turn back, 

 the trooper pushed on to cut off and secure the boy ; but he ran 

 as fast as the whelps could, and kept up with the old one. The 

 ground was uneven, and the trooper's horse could not overtake 

 them. They all entered the den, and the trooper assembled 

 some people from Chandour with pickaxes, and dug into the 

 den. When they had dug in about six or eight feet, the old Wolf 

 bolted with her three whelps and the boy. The trooper mounted 

 and pursued, followed by the fleetest young men of the party ; 

 and, as the ground over which they had to fly was more even, he 



