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Last fortnight, the Spectator got a letter from a former British army officer, one James Callendar Braithwaite of Grahamstown, South Africa, who had read the Spectator contest and identified himself as the man who had spoken the sentence in the King David bar. His story: while he was stationed in an army camp near Nairobi, soldiers had made pets of two lion cubs. "One of the brutes cut his paw on a piece of rusty metal," wrote Braithwaite. "This did not, naturally, improve his temper, and he nearly mauled the camp chaplain. After that he (the lion, not the chaplain...
...parched Grahamstown, on the eastern coast of Cape Province, the royal family arrived just as the first showers in four months began to fall. "The King is the bringer of rain!" shouted 9,000 grateful Bantus massed in the town square. Dusky women, their faces painted white and yellow for the occasion, waved corncob pipes in lusty greeting; Bantu men, led by dapper Chief Vukile (in a smart brown suit and fedora) and his counselors (one in a gilded top hat, military greatcoat and pajama pants), raised cheers for "Sozizwe"(the Father of All Nations) and prepared to slaughter eight...
Since the time of the initial report, however, largely through the efforts of Dr. Dru Drury of Grahamstown, additional information has been discovered. Dr. Drury has been able to interview and to examine Lucas, and has talked with every available person who might possibly have had knowledge of the case...
...Although the hearsay evidence about the boy being found by the police is still maintained, nevertheless the previous institutionalization of Lucas at the Grahamstown Mental Hospital, the distance of Grahamstown from Burghersdorp (where he was allegedly found among baboons), and the fact that there is no mention of the baboon incident in the Mental Hospital records, all would seem to discount the existence of a "feral" period in Lucas' life...
...police turned the Baboon Boy over to a mental hospital at Grahamstown. Hospital officials soon decided that, although he could speak no human language, the boy was of normal intelligence, that all he needed was training. They gave him to a farmer named George Smith, who named him Lucas...