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have all three declared all the circumstances here stated to he 

 strictly true. The boy was altogether about five months with 

 Sanaollah and his servants from the time they got him ; and he 

 had been taken about four months and a half before. The Wolf 

 must have had several litters of whelps during the last six or 

 seven years that the boy was with her. Janoo further adds that 

 he, after a month or two, ventured to try a waistband upon the 

 boy, but he often tore it off in distress or anger. After he had 

 become reconciled to this, in about two months he ventured 

 to put upon him a vest and pair of trousers. He had great diffi- 

 culty in making him keep them on, with threats and occasional 

 beatings. He would disencumber himself of them whenever left 

 alone, but put them on again in alarm when discovered ; and, to 

 the last, often injured or destroyed them, by rubbing them 

 against trees or posts like a beast, when any part of his body 

 itched. This habit he could never break him of.* 



It is remarkable that I can discover no well-established 

 instance of a man who had been nurtured in a Wolf's den having 

 been found. There is, in Lucknow, an old man, who was found 

 in the Oude Tarae when a lad, by the hut of an old hermit, who 

 had died. He is supposed to have been taken from Wolves by 

 this hermit. The trooper who found him brought him to the 

 king some forty years ago, and he has been ever since supported 

 by the king comfortably. He is still called the " wild man of the 

 woods." He was one day sent to me at my request, and I talked 



* Kajah Hurdut Sewae, who is now in Lucknow on business, tells me 

 (28th January, 1851) that the sowar brought the boy to Bondee, and there 

 kept him for a short time as long as he remained ; but as soon as he went 

 off, the boy came to him, and he kept him for three months ; that he 

 appeared to him to be twelve years of age ; that he ate raw meat as long as 

 he remained with him, with evident pleasure whenever it was offered to 

 him, but would not touch the bread and other dressed food put before him ; 

 that he went on all-fours, but would stand and go awkwardly on two legs 

 when threatened, or made to do so ; that he seemed to understand signs, but 

 could not understand or utter a word ; that he seldom attempted to bite any 

 one, nor did he tear the clothes that he put upon him ; that Sanaollah, the 

 Cashmeeree merchant, used at that time to come to him often with shawls 

 for sale, and must have taken the boy away with him, but he does not recol- 

 lect having given the boy to him. He says that he never himself sent any 

 letter to Sanaollah with the mother of the boy, but his brother, or some 

 other relation of his, may have written one for her. 



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