CASTAWAY FISHERMAN.
TERRIBLE EXPERIENCE ON AN ATOLL. LIVED ON SHELL FISH AND BIRDS’ EGGS. United Piucss Association —Copyright. SYDNEY, July 31. Advices from Noumea state that Rochegude, a resident there, had a terTiblo experience while fishing near the Isle of Pines. His boat was wrecked in a storm. Rochegude was cast on a small atoll, where he maintained life for a fortnight by means of shellfish and birds’ eggs, and he caught a little ■Tain in an old cask lying on the beach. He was a robust man when he was wrecked. His hair had turned white by the time he was found.
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Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2569, 2 August 1909, Page 5
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103CASTAWAY FISHERMAN. Gisborne Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 2569, 2 August 1909, Page 5
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