![]() ![]() ![]() I immediately wrote the Superintendent of the Sekandra Orphanage for confirmation of the story, and for any further information on the subject. We trust the new ‘unfortunate’ may soon improve too.” Some years ago we had a similar child he has picked up wonderfully, and though he has not learned to speak, can fully express his joys and grief. As yet he is very much like a wild animal his very whine reminds one of a young dog or some such creature. How long he had been with them it is impossible to say, but it must have been for rather a long period, from the facility he has for going on all fours, and his liking for raw meat. “A boy of about ten was burned out of a den in the company of wolves. My attention was, in the first place, drawn to this subject by the following extract from the Report of the Sekendra Orphanage, which, toward the end of the year 1872, went the round of the Indian papers: Erhardt responded, as accounted in Ball’s “ Jungle Life in India“: The hunters captured the feral child and brought him back to the Sikandra Orphanage where he was put into the care of Reverend Erhardt.Īs this story circulated, Valentine Ball, an Irish geologist, wrote a letter to the orphanage requesting more information. In 1872, for example, a group of hunters in Uttar Pradesh were reportedly attempting to smoke out a pack of wolves from a den when out stumbled a young boy. In the late 1800s, there were a number of reports involving children who had been found living among wild animals in the jungle.
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