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.

He was an elderly man and steward of the Jesuits when they were expelled from their property near this location in 1767.

In the year 1838 there was a witness in a judicial trial in South America who was born on the night of the great earthquake which destroyed the town of Ambato in 1698.

How much longer this man who was cradled by an earthquake lived is not as yet reported.