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MISCELLANEOUS TRIFLES.r-d Remarkable Instance of Longevity4lt; X 7 JL A a*-FEUS, who wrotethe hiftory of the Indies, whichLas always been conhdered as a model ■ of - veracity as welhas elegant compofition, mentions a native of Bengal, named Numas clc Cngna, w ho di ed in 1556, at theextraordinary age of 370. He wasa man of great limplicity, and quite illiterate ; but of fo exten-five a memory, that he was a kind of living Chronicle, relating dif-tincily and exatlly what had happened within his knowledge in the compafs of his life, together with all the cireumftances attending it.He had four new fetts of teeth ;and the colour of his hair and beard had very frequently changed from black to grey, and from grey to black. He allerted that in the coulie of his life he had 700 wivesfome of whom died, and the others he had put away. The firft century of his life had palled in idolatry, from which he had been converteto mahometanifm, which he continued to profefs to his death. Thisaccount is alfo confirmed by another
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Philadelphia Magazine and Review
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, US
Sat, Jun 01, 1799
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