Professor R. Ruggles Gates, heredity expert at the University of London (King's College), is now satisfied that South Africa's famous "hi boor boy" really was brought up by baboons, On June 19, he received a letter from Professor Raymond Dart, of Witwatersrand University, telling him that the police have corroborated many of the stories, The letter encloses a statement taken from the boy himself, now an adult farm worker at Thornkloof, Trappes Valley. This reads:
I can recall only a few incidents of my life among the baboons. My food consisted mainly of crickets, ostrich eggs, prickly pears, green mealies and wild honey.
I was kicked on the head by an ostrich while raiding its nest, and was often stung by bees while robbing their hives, and once fell and broke my leg.
While with the baboons I walked on all-fours and slept in the bush entirely naked.
I was busy hunting for food one day with my baboon companions when two policemen shot at us with revolvers, but I was captured by one of, the policemen.
"The "boy," a native who is now named' Lucas, was found near Grahamstown in 1921 by a police patrol who had been chasing a troop of baboons. He was then about 12 and he made guttural noises like the baboons. He now speaks Afrikaans an Capturing Junks, Killing Crews; Thrown into Sea SPECIAL TO rub "kcpu"
Kulangsu, July 14.
The s. Anking has just come from Chuanchow, bringing 200 passengers from Manila and stayed eleven days off Chuanchow getting the passengers disembarked. Only ten passengers were brought to Kulangsu, but hundreds were waiting in the boarding houses of the town waiting to get away. To board the vessel was a risky business and only ten took the risk. Boarding a ship or leaving her can be done only in the darkest period of the night; it is never known when the adventurous voyagers may bump into a Japanese patrol boat.. These patrol boats have bad habits: they machine gun every moving thing on sight and make enquiries afterwards.
The passengers who came to Amoy told of a little island that had been captured by the Japanese. It lies off the Awua area of Chuanchow and has been uninhabited from time immemorial, Japanese naval units landed there and with this isle as base of operation have seized every junk that passes. Fishing boats as well as commercial junks have been captured and taken to this island The crews of the boats, it is said have on every occasion been shot out of hand and their bodies cast into the sea.
During the time the Anking lay off the coast, the crew said that they saw eighteen such boats captured and taken to the island. The junks so captured are turned into Japanese patrol coastal boats after being manned by Japanese sailors. Yet, despite these desperate conditions. sailing vessels still carry on their daily trade. They insisted on coming alongside the Anking with goods to sell and were only stopped when they were told that the steamer required nothing.
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