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While we're on this subject... What exactly are the pawpaw and the prickly pear doing in the middle of the Indian jungle? For that matter, what's Cousin Louie doing there? How did he end up thousands of miles from Sumatra?
If Baloo was having his fruit imported from the Midwestern U.S., that's hardly the bare necessities, now is it?
The pawpaw in the Jungle Book is what's known in the US as papaya. It's been cultivated in India since at least the 18th century. Likewise prickly pears have been brought all over the world. By the time Kipling wrote The Jungle Book, both fruits were well established in India, just as many old world fruits have made it to the Americas.
Baloo does own a cargo plane.
Which, again, doesn't seem like a bare necessity.
Perhaps he was secretly rich, and thusly his esoteric definition was actually an eccentricity.
Look for the eccentricities, the simple eccentricities
Forget about your worries and your strife
I mean the eccentricities, old mother nature's recipes
That bring the eccentricities of life