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A Journey through the Kingdom of Oude, Volumes I & II

CHAPTER IV
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He seemed to be twelve years of age when he saw him--was very dark, and ate flesh, whether cooked or uncooked.

He had short hair all over his body when he first came, but having, for a time, as the Rajah states, eaten salt with his food, like other human beings, the hair by degrees disappeared.

He could walk, like other men, on his legs, but could never be taught to speak.

He would utter sounds like wild animals, and could be made to understand signs very well.

He used to sit at a bunneea's shop in the bazaar, but was at last recognised by his parents, and taken off.
What became of him afterwards he knows not.


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