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which he vouches, that in the year 1843 a lad came to the town 

 of Hasunpoor, who had evidently been brought up by Wolves. 

 He seemed to be twelve years af age when he saw him ; was very 

 dark, and ate flesh, whether cooked or uncooked. He had short 

 hair all over his body when he first came, but having, for a time, 

 as the Rajah states, eaten salt with his food, like all other human 

 beings, the hair, by degrees, disappeared. He could walk like 

 other men on his legs, but could never be taught to speak. He 

 would utter sounds like wild animals, and could be made to 

 understand signs very well. He used to sit at a bunneea's shop in 

 the Bazaar, but was at last recognised by his parents, and taken 

 off. What became of him afterwards he knows not. The 

 Rajah's statement regarding this lad is confirmed by all the 

 people of this town, but none of them know what afterwards 

 became of him. 



About the year 1843, a shepherd of the village of Ghut- 

 koree, twelve miles west from the cantonments of Sultanpoor, 

 saw a boy trotting along upon all-fours by the side of a Wolf, 

 one morning as he was out with his flock. With great difficulty 

 he caught the boy, who ran very fast, and brought him home. 

 He fed him for some time, and tried to make him speak, and 

 associate with men or boys, but he failed. He continued to be 

 alarmed at the sight of men, but was brought to Colonel Gray, 

 who commanded the First Oude Local Infantry at Sultanpoor. 

 He and Mrs. Gray, and all the officers in cantonments, saw him 

 often, and kept him for several days. But he soon after ran off 

 into the jungle while the shepherd was asleep. The shepherd 

 afterwards went to reside in another village, and I could not 

 ascertain whether he ever recovered the boy or not. 



Zolfukar Khan, a respectable landholder of Bankeepoor, in 

 the estate of Hasunpoor, ten miles east from the Sultanpoor 

 cantonments, mentions that about eight or nine years ago a 

 trooper came to the town with a lad of about nine or ten years 

 of age, whom he had rescued from Wolves among the ravines on 

 the road ; that he knew not what to do with him, and left him to 

 the common charity of the village ; that he ate everything 

 offered to him, including bread, but before taking it, he care- 

 fully smelt at it, and always preferred undressed meat to every- 

 thing else ; that he walked on his legs like other people when he 

 saw him, though there were evident signs, on his knees and 



