He took him up on the pummel of his saddle, but he was so wild and fierce that he tore the trooper’s clothes and bit him severely in several places, though he had tied his hands together.  He brought him to Bondee, where the Rajah had him tied up in his artillery gun-shed, and gave him raw-flesh to eat:  but he several times cut his ropes and ran off; and after three months the Rajah got tired of him, and let him go.  He was then taken by a Cashmeeree mimic, or comedian (bhand), who fed and took care of him for six weeks*; but at the end of that time he also got tired of him (for his habits were filthy), and let him go to wander about the Bondee bazaar.  He one day ran off with a joint of meat from a butcher’s shop, and soon after upset some things in the shop of a bunneeah, who let fly an arrow at him.  The arrow penetrated the boy’s thigh.  At this time Sanaollah, a Cashmere merchant of Lucknow, was at Bondee, selling some shawl goods to the Rajah, on the occasion of his brother’s marriage.  He had many servants with him, and among them Janoo, a khidmutgar lad, and an old sipahee, named Ramzan Khan.  Janoo took compassion upon the poor boy, extracted the arrow from his thigh, had his wound dressed, and prepared a bed for him under the mango-tree, where he himself lodged, but kept him tied to a tent-pin.  He would at that time eat nothing but raw flesh.  To wean him from this, Janoo, with the consent of his master, gave him rice and pulse to eat.  He rejected them for several days, and ate nothing; but Janoo persevered, and by degrees made him eat the balls which he prepared for him:  he was fourteen or fifteen days in bringing him to do this.  The odour from his body was very offensive, and Janoo had him rubbed with mustard-seed soaked in water, after the oil had been taken from it (khullee), in the hope of removing this smell.  He continued this for some months, and fed him upon rice, pulse, and flour bread, but the odour did not leave him.  He had hardened marks upon his knees and elbows, from having gone on all fours.  In about six weeks after he had been tied up under the tree, with a good deal of beating, and rubbing of his joints with oil, he was made to stand and walk upon his legs like other human beings.  He was never heard to utter more than one articulate sound, and that was “Aboodeea,” the name of the little daughter of the Cashmeer mimic, who had treated him with kindness, and for whom he had shown some kind of attachment.  In about four months he began to understand and obey signs.  He was by them made to prepare the hookah, put lighted charcoal upon the tobacco, and bring it to Janoo, or present it to whomsoever he pointed out.

[* Transcriber’s note—­’six weeks’ was printed as ‘six months’, but is corrected by the author, in Volume ii, in a P.S. to his letter, dated 20th November, 1852, to Sir James Weir Hogg.]