The next day, the priest attacks Buldeo while his back is turned, but Buldeo knocks him into the swamp where he is killed by a crocodile. The priest tells Buldeo that the barber had attacked him and that he had killed in self-defense, but Buldeo knows better. When they stop for the night, the priest tries to steal the treasure and murders the barber when the barber wakes up. They find the treasure and leave for the village with as much as they can carry. Mowgli is followed by the greedy Buldeo and two friends, a pandit and a barber, to the lost city. However, she and another villager who tries to defend her are tied up and themselves threatened with burning for witchcraft. Mowgli is chained up and threatened with death, but escapes with his mother's help. He tells the villagers that Mowgli is a witch, as is his mother. Buldeo becomes convinced that Bagheera is Mowgli himself, shape-shifted into panther form. He threatens Mowgli with a gun, but is attacked by Mowgli's friend Bagheera, the black panther. As he is skinning the body, Buldeo arrives. Mowgli fights and kills Shere Khan, with some last minute help from Kaa, the python. Buldeo resolves to follow Mowgli to the site of the treasure. When Buldeo sees the coin, he tries to force Mowgli to tell him where the treasure is, but Mowgli refuses. Warned by an aged cobra that the wealth brings death, they leave, but Mahala takes one coin as a memento.

When Mowgli and Mahala explore the jungle, they discover a hidden chamber in a ruined palace, containing fabulous wealth. He learns to speak and tries to imitate the ways of men, as well as becomes friendly with Buldeo's daughter, Mahala. Years later, Mowgli is captured by the villagers and taken in by his mother Messua, though she does not recognize him as her lost child.

The child is adopted by wolves in the jungle and grows to be the wild youth Mowgli. The attack leads to the death of a man and the loss of the man's child. In an Indian village, Buldeo, an elderly storyteller, is paid by a visiting British memsahib to tell a story of his youth.Īs a younger man, he recalls his village being attacked by Shere Khan the tiger.

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