DE ROUGEMONTS FAIRY TALES.

New Zealand Graphic, Volume XXI, Issue XVII, 22 October 1898, Page 521

DE ROUGEMONTS FAIRY TALES.

Most of our readers are familiar by this time with the general tenor of De Rougemont’s story that has been the subject of wonder and doubt for the last three months. How the poor shipwrecked Genevese lived on a bit of an island a hundred yards across until he was rescued by some blacks, and how he lived with these people for thirty years and became one of themselves, is now a matter of history-—or of fiction. Needless to say, the ‘Graphic’ artist did not accompany the wanderer through all these trials and tribulations, but having passed some years in the neighbourhood of Cambridge Gulf, North-west Australia, he was able to supply us with some interesting sketches of the country where De Rougemont claims to have been located for over a quarter of it century. The scenes we reproduce are typical of thousands of sepia re miles in the north-west of the great continent.