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The honey-bee is not yet known in California, although the abun- 

 dance of flowers would seem to indicate their necessity. 



A species of tarantula is known, as well as a kind of wasp, its an- 

 tagonist. 



The shark and dog-fish are found in the coast waters. 



In the spring of the year millions upon millions of salmon ascend 

 every river in the country, and furnish abundance of food to the peo- 

 ple, particularly the Indians. 



Sardines are found in immense numbers on this coast in the spring, 

 and afford an abundant and delicate article of food. 



Fish are said to be abundant in the Tula lakes. 



The shores of California furnish an immense variety of shell-fish of 

 the most delicious kinds : the Almecas or mussel, the Avelone, the 

 date-fish, &c. &c, as well as the star-fish, are very abundant. 



There are five distinct varieties of shell-fish found in the soft clay- 

 stone of Monterey ; and fossil shells and other remains are very com- 

 mon in California. 



Wolves suckling Children in the Romulus and Remus style. — Colonel Sleeman told 

 me one of the strangest stories I ever beard, relative to some children, natives of this 

 country (Oude), carried away and brought up by wolves. He is acquainted with five 

 instances of this, in two of which he has both seen the children and knows the circum- 

 stances connected with their recapture from the animals. It seems that wolves are 

 very numerous about Cawnpore and Lucknow, and that children are constantly being 

 carried off by them. Most of these have of course served as dinners for their captors, 

 but some have been brought up and educated after their own fashion by them. Some 

 time ago, two of the King of Oude's sowars (mounted gens d'armes), riding along the 

 banks of the Goomptje, saw three animals come down to drink. Two were evidently 

 young wolves, but the third was as evidently some other animal. The sowars rushed 

 in upon them and captured the three, and to their great surprise found that one was a 

 small naked boy. He was on all fours like his companions, had callosities on his 

 knees and elbows, evidently caused by the attitude used in moving about, and bit and 

 scratched violently in resisting the capture. The boy was brought up in Lucknow, 

 where he lived some time, and may, for aught I know, be living still. lie was quite 

 unable to articulate words, but had a dog-like intellect, quick at understanding signs, 

 and so on. Another enfant trouve under the same circumstances lived with two Eng- 

 lish people for some time. He learned at last to pronounce the name of a lady who 

 was kind to him, and for whom he showed some affection, but his intellect was always 

 clouded, and more like the instinct of a dog than the mind of a human being. There 

 was another more wonderful but hardly so well authenticated story of a boy who never 

 could get rid of a strong wolfish smell, and who was seen not long after his capture to 

 be visited by three wolves, which came evidently with hostile intentions, but which, 

 after closely examining him, he seeming not the least alarmed, played with him, and 



