When I spoke of Alapai to my old savage, he told me that _it seemed to him a matter of yesterday_; of Cook, _it was a thing of to-day_.
From these facts it may be believed that Kanuha was not less than one hundred and sixteen years old when I met him on this occasion.

This remarkable example of longevity was by no means unique at the Hawaiian Islands a few years since.

Father Marechal knew at Ka'u, in 1844, an aged woman who remembered perfectly having seen Alapai.

I had occasion to converse at Kauai with an islander who was already a grandfather when he saw Captain Cook die.

I sketched, at this very Hoopuloa, the portrait of an old woman, still vigorous, Meawahine, who told any who would hear her that her breasts were completely developed when her chief gave her as wife to the celebrated English navigator.
Old Kanuha was the senior of all these centenaries.