HUMAN ANIMALS

New Zealand Times, Volume LIII, Issue 12605, 16 November 1926, Page 6

HUMAN ANIMALS

GIRLS FOUND WITH WOLVES ’ ft WALKED ON ALL FOURS, AND BARKED STRANGE TALE FROM INDIA By Telegra pin—Press Assm—Copyright. .1 'i-trtihan and N.Z Cabin Association, DELHI. November 14. A remarkable story, absolutely vouched for by Bishop H. PnkenhamVValsh and the Rev. Mr Singh, an Indian Christian missionary, is that of two Indian girls who ware abandoned and were found living with wolves at Midnnpore, Bengal. These girls, one aged two, and the other eight, were discovered by chance owing to the villagers sa.ving that they never used a certain path, because it was hiujnted there. Mr Singh and a party came upon a wolves' den which was guarded by the mother wolf, which had been shot. They found two cubs and two girls. The girls, who were very ficroe, darted away on all fours, uttering guttural barkings. When caught, it was found that their nails had become concave through constant scratching. ‘ The children were taken to Midnapore Orphanage. One died, but the elder survived. She is normal in size and knows a few words of Bengali, and when uttering them, smiios. She has now become accustomed to clothes, but at firßt she intensely resented being washed. This girl still has an overpowering desire for meat, preferably raw, and has abnormally acute senses of smell, hearing, and sight. She never harks now, and has developed rapidly, but has no aptitude for learning