In the process, her father Colonel Brydon is shot in the leg and inadvertently captured as well. Tabaqui restrains Kitty while Boone addresses Mowgli.īoone's team as with the bandits then kidnap Kitty, knowing that Mowgli will do anything for her. They attempt to capture Mowgli so he can lead them to the treasure but fail as Baloo intervenes only to be shot and wounded by Boone and Wilkins. The following day, Buldeo and Tabaqui round up some bandits and track down Mowgli. Mowgli refuses and Kitty later calls off her engagement to Boone after his treatment of Mowgli.

Boone forms a partnership with Buldeo and the men plan to 'persuade' Mowgli into assisting them. There, they tell Boone and Wilkins the stories of the 'Lost City of Hanuman' and how all who traveled there to claim treasure perished along the way and Tabaqui further backs up Buldeo's point by adding that entering the Black Jungle would be risking your life, unless one knew the way. Julius Plumford, Buldeo and Tabaqui arrange for Boone and Wilkins to meet them at an outdoor tavern. Several days later, as the jungle boy is being educated and re-introduced to civilization by Katherine 'Kitty' Brydon and Dr. But Boone approaches and takes the 'queen's evidence' off the reluctant hunter and while Boone and Lieutenant Wilkins marvel over the sight of the valuable, Buldeo informs the two that there's bound to be more treasure like the dagger, before leaving on horseback with Tabaqui who was waiting for him.

Buldeo finds a jeweled dagger on Mowgli's person and is intrigued by it and knows that it comes from the mythical City of Hanuman. Tabaqui is first seen after Buldeo assists in Mowgli's arrest by knocking the boy out after he eludes the British troops. Along with Buldeo, Tabaqui had ties to the village's underbelly. Tabaqui is a supporting antagonist in Rudyard Kipling's The Jungle Book.Ī very tall and fearsome man, Tabaqui was an experienced jungle guide working for Captain William Boone.

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