<P> In later stories in The Second Jungle Book, Mowgli finds and then discards an ancient treasure ("The King's Ankus"), not realising it is so valuable that men would kill to own it . With the aid of Kaa the python, he leads the wolves in a war against the Dhole ("Red Dog"). </P> <P> Finally, Mowgli stumbles across the village where his adopted human mother (Messua), is now living, which forces him to come to terms with his humanity and decide whether to rejoin his fellow humans in "The Spring Running". </P> <P> Rudyard Kipling adapted the Mowgli stories for The Jungle Play in 1899, but the play was never produced on stage . The manuscript was lost for almost a century . It was finally published in book form in 2000 . </P> <P> Only six years after the first publication of The Jungle Book, E. Nesbit's The Wouldbegoods (1899) included a passage in which some children act out a scene from the book . </P>

Who adopts mowgli in the village and why