RELICS OF CAPTAIN COOK
' ♦ king's gift to maritime ',;;.': \'■ ; . ' museum LONDON, April 28. To mark his visit down the river Thames to Greenwich, where he~ opened the new National Maritime Museum, the King presented that institution with two priceless manuscript journals kept by Captain Cook. One of these records his first voyage in 1760, when he rediscovered and entirely charted the New Zealand coast and the eastern coast of Australia, circumnavigating the globe, and proving that'scurvy could be conquered. The second journal covers his second voyage in 1772, in which he disproved theories about a great southern continent. The. volumes have been in the Royal library at Windsor Castle.
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Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22080, 30 April 1937, Page 11
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108RELICS OF CAPTAIN COOK Press, Volume LXXIII, Issue 22080, 30 April 1937, Page 11
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