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WOLF-CHILDREN.

INDIAN RECORDS EXAMINED.

SATURDAY, MAY 21, 1927.

A PALACE AT

ALGIERS.

MODERN COMFORT AND MODRISH STATE.

The report in the Times that a amall boy had been discovered liv ing in a wolf's den near Allahabad

The Governor-General of Algeria should arouse more than a popular is well housed: From his diare- interest, writes Brigadier General putable predecessors, the Barbary R. G. Barton in mail week. More corsairs of a century ago, he in- than 50 years ago Professor Max herits two delightful Moorish Muller drew attention to wolf-houses: the Palais d'Hiver (or children in the pages of the Vieux Palais) in the heart of Academy, and strongly urge Algerin, and the Palais d'Ete on sportsmen, naturalists, and dis- the heights of Mustapha, says a trict offelals to investigato on the Times correspondent. The latter, spot their probability and possibi- which before the rapid expansion lity. It is to be hoped that the of the town under French rule was presont instance will be fully in the "country" palace of the Doy, quired Into by judicial and medical is now well within the suburban officials at Bareilly, where the area and has become the princi- child has been taken for treatment al official residence of the head in a mental institution, and in the of the Algerian Government. Al- district where the capture is re- though the entrance lodges open ported to have taken place.

upon the Ruo Michelet the Palais In the past many such cases itself lies sufficiently far back in have been recorded, but I can trace ample gardens to escape the noise none of recent date. How far of the clanking trams and hooting are these dependent on myth and motors by which that important legend, or on native invention, and thoroughfare is traversed. Once how far have they a basis of within the gates there are no dia- truth?

cordant sounds to mar the enjoy The subject was investigated by ment of the smooth, wide roadways Sir William Sleeman in the first and paths, the brilliant flower- half of the last century. In those borders, and the exquisite follage days wolves were far more numer of rare and carefully tended sub- ous than they are now, were con-tropical plants, which, with a back-

of northern sequently more destructive to hu- ground man, and especially to child, life. trees, combine to give this garden Children in India, are laden with its rare and very special beauty. gold and silver ornaments, and in And to this intrinsic beauty there some parts, especially in Oudh. so must be added the "amenities of p many were carried off that people Moorish garden-house, made a living by collecting the or-shaded chambers open to the plash- naments found in the dens of of cooling waters on a marble- wolves. It is probable, therefore paved and balustraded terracz, that many stories of live babies and one may gaze at ease, in softly brought up by wolves were apocry-cushioned chairs, upon the town, phal. Children were not infre- the bay, and the encircling hills. quently adandoned times, and perhaps subsisted for some time on the produce of the forest, and if recovered were said to have been brought up by wolves. A small girl, said to have been nurtured by monkeys and brought in to Naini Tal some years ago. probably belonged to this category.

in famine

Dug Out of Den.

Old Palace of Deys."

forest

where

Nor is the mansion unworthy of such a setting. The palace of the Deys has been greatly enlarged by the Hame Moorish architecture, blends so happily with the original, that in the resultant structure the Governor-General has an official home which is not only beautiful and historically appropriate, but A typical instance of a wolf-boy suficiently commodious to serve -they are always males-was the social requirements of his high that of one said to have been re-position. The utility of the great covered with a large she-wolf and central court, the Court d'honneur, her cubs about 1847. They were and the spacious saloons, thus pro- said to have been dug out of a vided, become obvious when it is den into which they were seen to remembered that as many as 3,000 retreat. The boy went on all guests are entertained at a single fours; like all such cases he would official reception. The largest of eat only raw meat, and he was these "State apartments" an idiot, as all reported wolf richly decorated Salle des Fetes. children, except Romulus and Even more ornate, though con-i Remus and Mowgli of the "Jungle siderably smaller, is the Salon Book," have been. This boy was presidentiel, which; with the pri- kept for a time by the Raja of vate rooms leading out of it, is re- Hasnapur, and afterwards by Can- served for the use of the President tain Nicholetts at Sultanpur until of the Republic' when visiting Al- August, 1850, when the wolf-child geria. This gallery has a marvel died.

lous ceiling of glass lustres, and there are some good (modern) de- corative paintings on the walls.

Several wolf-boys have been kept at the Sikandra Orphanage at Agrn, where one was seen by Valentine Ball, of the Survey of India (author of "Jungle Life in India"), in 1874. He had then been nine years at the institution, and was supposed to be about 15 years of age. Ball mentions the shortness of his arms, only 19in. in length, as being due to arrest ed growth through his going about on all fours. He was said to have been brought into the magistrate's Court with the body of a she-wolf and two cubs; exhibited for re- ward, with which he had been

found.

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Among much else that is notable in the original palace, the central court and staircase are conspicu- ous. The former, styled the Cour mauresque, in distinction to the new Cour d'honneur, is remarkable' for its milkwhite marble floor, broken only by a single fountain, and the simplicity and perfection of its arcades. The latter, the an cient escalier, also of white mar- ble, is distinguished by the fine workmanship of its sculptured balustrades and the delicate col- ouring of the tiles which line the walls.

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Besides these Stufe apartments all these cases, a number of which are recorded, and all present the the Palais d'Ete contains the same characteristics, which point rooms required for the personal to similarity of upbringing use of the Governor-General and There was one such occurrence at his household. These private Chupra, where in 1843 a man and rooms, which, with their chintz his wife went out to cut their covered sottees and easy chairs! crop of wheat. With them was and general air of comfort, offer their child, which was marked on a sharp contrast to the formal the knee by a severe scald; and splendours of the official saloons, while they were at work the boy are well removed from the en- was carried off by a wolf. Six trance front. years later a wolf with three cubs and a boy was seen ten miles from Chupra, and the boy was caught after a fierce resistance. He was recognized by the mother as her boy, the mark of the scar on the kace being plainly visible.

Another Case,'

They include a billiard room (with a full-sized table) a large and well-lighted study, the Cabinet du Gouverneur, and a dining room on the ground floor; and salon which open on to a deep colonnade with a charming background of flower-beds and forest trees. Another wolf-hoy was seen by Among the many distinguished Colonel Gray and all the officers men who have preceded M. Man-4

present Gov- at Sultanpur in 1843, suid to have rice Violette, the been caught when trotting alongernor-General, the names of two, by the side of a wolf. He was at least, are familiar, to English- also unable to speak and ran oamen-Marshal MacMahon and A. all fours, and was said to have Jules "Cambon. The former is escaped again to the jungle. Ball commemorated by a statue placed mentions that he asked an eminent on the opposite side of the Ruc nurgeon what he thought of all Michelet, facing the entrance. ta these stories, and the reply was, the Palais d'Ete: a position sym- "I don't believe any of them"; the holle of the large part which he surgeon had formerly resided In played in the history of Algeria Oudh. Certainly, su far as the cir- and of France. The latter, the of capture are con- brather of the late French Ambas- cumstances cerned, they are all dependent. on sador in London, is remembered an the chief author of the adminis- native teslimony, which, as re- gards the things of the jungle, istrative reforms of 30 years ago; prone to superstition and ex- reforms which Inaugurated

Perhaps the latest subsequent-and assured-politi- aggeration. instance may be proved credi- enl and economic progress of ble in all details, but until Al proof is provided thera must

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remain an element of doubt Casting their savageness aside whether wolf-children havo in have done reality been found. In the mean- time we must preserve the uncer tainty set forth by Antigonus in the "Winter's Talo":

Come on, poor babe: Some powerful spirit instruct the kiles and ravens

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I can find no recorded instance of a bear nurturing a child; but

it was reported not long since that

a child was carried off by a pan- ther in the North Cachar hills and kept for, three years. A hoy us To be thy nurses! Wolves and usual, he was said to have been re- bears, they say,

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