The ingenious way in which the author has
woven the facts together and interspersed them with his intimate
knowledge of animal-life commends his "Jungle-Book" as a
legitimate source of recreation to the scientific observer.
Among observers mentioned in the "Index Catalogue" who have
studied this subject are Giglioli, Mitra, and Ornstein.
The artificial manufacture of "wild men" or "wild boys" in the
Chinese Empire is shown by recent reports. Macgowan says the
traders kidnap a boy and skin him alive bit by bit, transplanting
on the denuded surfaces the hide of a bear or dog. This process
is most tedious and is by no means complete when the hide is
completely transplanted, as the subject must be rendered mute by
destruction of the vocal cords, made to use all fours in walking,
and submitted to such degradation as to completely blight all
reason. It is said that the process is so severe that only one in
five survive. A "wild boy" exhibited in Kiangse had the entire
skin of a dog substituted and walked on all fours. It was found
that he had been kidnapped. His proprietor was decapitated on the
spot. Macgowan says that parasitic monsters are manufactured in
China by a similar process of transplantation.
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