Letting in the Jungle Letting in the Jungle "Letting In the Jungle" is a short story by Rudyard Kipling which continues Mowgli's adventures from "Mowgli's Brothers" and "Tiger! Tiger!". The story was written at Kipling's parents' home in Tisbury, Wiltshire, and is therefore the only Mowgli story not written in Vermont. It was published in the Pall Mall Gazette and the Pall Mall Budget for December 13, 1894, and in McClure's Magazine for January 1895, before being collected as the third story in "The Second Jungle Book" (1895). In the previous story Mowgli fulfilled his vow to kill the tiger Shere Khan and to
Rudyard Kipling (ship) over to the U-boat. Timed explosive charges were then placed on the trawler and three minutes later, at 15:53, the trawler exploded and sank. While raiding the trawler, the Germans took the crew of the "Rudyard Kipling" on board and provided them with food and warm clothes. Eight hours later, in the early hours of 17 September, the Germans allowed the crew of the "Rudyard Kipling" to reboard their lifeboats and set them adrift west of the port town of Donegal. Sometime later the crew landed at Killybegs to the west of the town. The "Rudyard Kipling" was the 27th