, who had nursed
a relative born in 1630. The last lady of this remarkable trio is
hale and hearty, and has just successfully undergone an operation
for cataract. Similar to the case of the centenarian who had seen
Henry Jenkins was that of James Horrocks, who was born in 1744
and died in 1844. His father was born in 1657, one year before
the death of the Protector, and had issue in early life. He
married again at eighty-four to a woman of twenty-six, of which
marriage James was the offspring in 1744. In 1844 this man could
with verity say that he had a brother born during the reign of
Charles II, and that his father was a citizen of the
Commonwealth.
Among the Mission Indians of Southern California there are
reported instances of longevity ranging from one hundred and
twenty to one hundred and forty. Lieutenant Gibbons found in a
village in Peru one hundred inhabitants who were past the century
mark, and another credible explorer in the same territory records
a case of longevity of one hundred and forty. This man was very
temperate and always ate his food cold, partaking of meat only in
the middle of the day. In the year of 1840 in the town of Banos,
Ecuador, died "Old Morales," a carpenter, vigorous to his last
days.
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