Show of H H bancroft and other reports to be living in copt tebia temperance atida ihly moral in okyo 1 had uncommon physical endurance and contempt for luxury this training in abstinence i ff yil fajt fc S combined tha astonishing longevity to be found here says charles dudley warner in harpers 0 f isaials ISa ians their aged were carfi of the coin dr diego is quoted aa eyink bat impi visit to el cajan galley obia fhil ty ta amab years ao he wa staKen corhouse lor hOuse m which the persons were cared for there were half a dozen who had reached an extreme ac some were to more their bony aada about their withered limbs some had hair as white as snow and had seen some seven score of years others still jable to crawl but so aged as to bo una bota stand pw ly about tf iiii hanels ia knees attari bated and withered the organs of special sense had in many nearly lost all activity some generations back some had lost the use of their limber more than a decade or a generation but the organs of life and the great sym functions not recognizing recognising the tha rest of the JS folant fola nJ use a in tib tiati ti 1 dr have seen of a squaw whom he e iti mates to be one hundred and twenty six years old when he visited her he saw her put six watermelons water melons in a blanket tie it up and carry it on back for two miles fie is familiar with indian customs and history and a careful cross examination convinced him him that her information customs was not il she was habits she had seen practiced such as the cremation of the dead which the mission fathers had compelled com palled the indians to relinquish she had seen the indians punish edby for persisting in the practice of cremation at the mission of san tomas in lower california is still living an indian a photograph Cof whom dr whose aget eata ablin hs T i djs K T and daily goes down the beach and along the beds of the creeks in charch if his daily task to gather and carry to camp a fagot of wood |