ARAB METHUSELAH.

Hawera Star, Volume XLVIII, 16 August 1924, Page 12

ARAB METHUSELAH.

SAW NAPOLEON AT ACRE. There is an old man in Palestine who is said to be 139 years of age, compared with whom the people mentioned in the cablegram recently—including one English woman of 102are comparatively youthful. This venerable Arab, whose name is T. El Saadeey, remembers Napoleon Bonaparte, whom he saw at the siege of Akko, or Acre, as we spell it. There is a picture of-this wonderful old man in the illustrated paper called A 1 Lataif, published in Cairo. Mr A. H. Rassie, of Newmarket, who received a copy of the paper, has made a translation of the v title in Arabic under the old fellow’s picture. The old chap was living at Remellet, in Palestine, last, year when the picture was taken, and he was then strong, healthy, and apparently in the full possession of' all his faculties. Some three years and a half, ago Saadeey arried a young wife, and she presented him with a son, the child being now just over two years old, and in the best of health.