![]() ![]() He then gathers the jungle animals into the same lake for protection, and all the creatures watch as the lost city burns to the ground. Back at the village, Buldeo starts a fire and Mowgli instructs Mahala to lead the villagers to a jungle island where they will be safe. Although the elephants favor killing the merchant, Mowgli insists on returning him to his village, asserting that only humans kill for sport. When Mowgli asks his animal friends to gather around Buldeo and frighten him, Buldeo loses his mind, convinced that Mowgli has transformed dozens of times. Buldeo, who also wants the ruby, then pushes the pundit into the river and watches Mugger eat him. At night, the pundit kills the barber in order to steal the massive ruby sword he has taken from the treasure. They discover the treasure and load huge piles of gold into sacks, but hearing Mowgli's disembodied voice warning them to flee, they race into the trees and quickly become hopelessly lost. Buldeo's group then trails him into the jungle, where Mowgli intentionally leads them to the lost city. After Mowgli tells Messua that both the jungle and the man pack have cast him out, Buldeo and his cohorts watch as she slips Mowgli a knife to escape. When Mowgli proudly returns to the village with Shere Khan's hide, he learns that Buldeo has convinced them all that he is a witch, and he is captured and whipped in preparation for his burning. Buldeo and his friends have tracked Mowgli to the river, and when Bagheera attacks them, Buldeo believes Mowgli can shape-shift and races home. Mowgli then provokes Shere Khan until the tiger leaps into the river with him, and there stabs the beast while under water. He invokes the rule of the jungle, "we be of one blood, ye and I," to gain advice from the wise python Kaa, who tells Mowgli to lead the tiger into the water. Soon after, Mowgli learns that Shere Khan is near, and returns to the jungle in spite of Messua's pleas. Realizing that only Mowgli can lead him to the lost city, he begins to court the boy, joined by the barber and the pundit, who also see the gold piece. Mahala returns to her home with one piece of gold, which Buldeo finds the next morning. The python guarding the treasure terrifies Mahala, and although Mowgli recognizes that it has long lost its venom, he heeds its warning that the jewels hold more death than his fangs ever did. Mowgli then leads Mahala to a lost empire deep in the jungle, where she falls into a treasure chamber full of precious jewels and gold. Outside, Mahala sneaks off with Mowgli to hear the sounds of the jungle, and that night, they are welcomed into the jungle, where the wolf pack surrounds Mowgli joyously, and Hati the elephant warns him that Shere Khan is just returning from a long trip. Buldeo hears and calls Mowgli an animal, but hoping he will return to the jungle, sells the boy a knife. ![]() There, Buldeo's daughter Mahala shows him a bear rug that her father killed, and Mowgli replies that he knew the bear, who was very old, and that hunters must be very cowardly. When he declares that he wants a "man tooth" to keep him safe from the tiger, Messua sends him to Buldeo's store to buy a knife. Over the next weeks, Messua teaches Mowgli to speak and instructs him in the ways of her people. Messua, who does not realize he is her son, offers to rear him and leads him to the safety of her home, and Buldeo predicts that the curse of the beast will now rain down on them all. Realizing that he is feral, the men want to release him, but Buldeo, a superstitious merchant, insists he has the evil eye. He burns his hand on the unfamiliar fire, however, and begins barking, prompting the village men to surround him. One day, as he is fleeing the tiger, whom he can easily outwit, Mowgli spots the "man-village" and sneaks in to get a closer look at the humans. Twelve years later, the boy, now called Mowgli, is as much a part of the jungle as the rest of the wildlife, with Shere Khan his only enemy. While Natu's mother Messua grieves, a family of wolves, headed by father Akeda and mother Raksha, take Natu in and treat him as one of their own cubs. When Masu runs after him, he is killed by Shere Khan, and the rest of the men are too frightened to enter the jungle. Masu places his young son Natu away from the builders, and moments later the baby wanders off into the trees. One night, the people of a growing village work through the night, hoping to create a great city. There also exists an ongoing struggle between man and nature, village and jungle. There is Baloo the bear, who teaches jungle law Bagheera, the wise panther the wicked crocodile Mugger and Shere Khan, a killer tiger whose stripes were whipped onto his hide by the jungle trees. In India, the daughter of the British magistrate pays a native storyteller to recite what he calls "the story of India:" Deep in the jungle, wildlife rules with an intricate hierarchy.
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