A HOME WITH WOLVES

Taranaki Daily News, 16 November 1926, Page 9

A HOME WITH WOLVES

STRANGE STORY FROM INDIA WwD CHILDREN RECOVERED. DISCOVERY LX JUNGLE DEN. By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. Delhi, Nov. 14. A remarkable story, absolutely vouched for by Bishop Pakenaham Walsh and the Rev. Mr. Singh (an Indian Christian missionary), is that two Indian girls who had been abandoned, were living with wolves at Midnapore, Bengal. These girls—one aged two and the other eight years—were discovered by chance, owing to villagers saying they, never used a certain path because it was haunted. The Rev. Mr. Singh and his party came upon a wolves’ den, guarded by the mother wolf. When she had been shot they found two cubs and the two girls. The latter were very fierce, and 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 the Midnapore orphanage, where one died, but the elder survived. She is of normal size and knows a few words of Bengali, which, when uttering, she smiles. She has now become accustomed to clothes and being washed, which at first she intensely resented. She still has an overpowering desire for a meal, preferably meat. She had abnormally acute smell, hearing and sight; she never barks now, and has developed rapidly, but has no aptitude for learning.