RARE BOOK.

Press, Volume LXII, Issue 18625, 25 February 1926, Page 9

RARE BOOK.

COOK'S THIRD VOYAGE. VOLUME IN TU9NWU. LIBRARY. vsrscua «> ~rmx «ut*»*"l WELLINGTON, February .s*With reference to the c*bl» »*«»©»> stating that the rare book, 'lie Mining Zimmerman Story of the Trawb of Captain Jaiuea Cook in tfee Sooth Seas,'' has been discovered in Switzerland and is being s*mt ia VktQxi»» 8.C., Mr Johannes Audenwo state* that there is in the priceless coUecttea of raj* books in the TttmtaS Library a copy of the Zimmerman j»k> rutiro of Cook's tburd vayag*. ia th» Pacific. It is possible, judging frsE* the cable message, that the cop? i» the Turnbull Library is ths earjr o«*» of i?Bi now in existence. At aay mte, it must he most rare. The hook, written in Gesiaaa, va* published at Mannheim, Gejrtaaray, hy C. F. Schwan in 1781, two ye»ci eadter than that mentioned in the abova rahfc message. Tho book is dedicated ** Albert von Qberndorf. Tfet writer, ia his preface, says that whilst faß **» counts of the voyage have beta »«h----li&hed by Captain Cook himself, ho M* that it is his duty t<* pubSith his «w» narrative, whiVU is front WW pmt # view of an ordinary swuuna, fat hotrtt is of octavo sise, and a s**rcfc sh«w* that from tho year 1887 to th* ptmtmA date tae book does sot appear ta haw been in the Tendon market t M»ih*r presumption of th« rarity of tb«'4ro** merman narrative. Included in too perwMwel of CMJt% oxpeditioa were two Germsis »ess»tists, vtrntfy, Mr J. J, JW«r ««| his son, both proxaln«at botV&uts «f that day, Mr Forater, sea,, hiaself, paV lished a book on the voyage, *rhkh it an excellent narrative. As stated, the writer cf the limtiw-. man account was an abb Mareaa «r tho Resolution, and bi* xntk «sit tav* been considered of »«&ciea* iamefanco in iliat dav to jastifv Hon of a book of JlO pafe*. GMklr third and last voyage whs pnnanlF <• settle the qucrlon of the X««tlt-Wea# Passage, a problem takes waiter of scientific istemt by the British Govennncat. Swilinj &o» ii* K««* on Juna 25th, ITT6 (Prjrwtata jfejjtr 33th), with tbo Resolution *wk XHmwrery, and touching at the Cape wt ftMni Hope, h« left oa Kovemh«« 35ih» . Cook next made Tasmania* smd west "- passed on to New 3«&fcuas a»4 Ikt Tonga and Sowety I*laa4»» on his way several of tfca tatgvr mm*bers of CooJfe Al«hip«lftge, ally Mangaia and fMuvh Jw**f» April 4th, pn). Vt<m TMa ** 1m moved north toward* tine mis «festt* ot hia expeditios, he mado a far am . important ditcovery, or **t««r ari&h covery, that of the Httwaiiaa «r Bk*§* wieh Islandn. > He tfc«* aftiM - the coast of North Aaerfca, &&&&ss., . at numoroufi poiats, a«a Ti«it«4 tiW ' Aaiatia shores of Botorisf Strai*. * «*»' hia return voyage hj» called agaltt al< Hawaii (Jmaaxy 174%, Ufa). ffctiWft 1 portance of these Iflslwid* hj« BHW realised, and i» •»• ef ttwtt • ha*» ; : (Kaealakehiw) he met ak *»» w&fr -: in the memiag of INshmwurjr I*% Bm : During th» tdght of »»h»«My W|» J I one of th«> JSaeoveiy'ta beats iby the aativeu, H*vißgh»ft«4 IfoUo-wiag.day vrith * m * ' • trouble en»ned whieh pattv to tetecafc to thai* taata. Uiw was'the last to retire, aa*. «a fea Jjjflja,, nearhae the shore he twwivaft a w^* 1 fTom behind which felled him to m ground. Be xoso imnwdiaWy Susly resisted tlw crowds wJ4*F<*l«f upon him, htit was, woa j ajid killed.