MARITIME MUSEUM
:t by the king
PRICELESS COOK JOURNALS
(British. Official Wireless.).
(Received April 29, 12.50 p.m.)
RUGBY, April 27.
To mark his visit down the river to Greenwich yesterday when he opened the new national maritime museum, the King has presented that institution with two priceless manuscript journals kept by: Captain Cook.' . .-
One of these records his first voyage in 1760 in command of H.M.S. En-deavour-when he rediscovered and entirely charted: New Zealand 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 the great southern continent.
The volumes had been in the Royal library at Windsor. ' ■
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Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 100, 29 April 1937, Page 9
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119MARITIME MUSEUM Evening Post, Volume CXXIII, Issue 100, 29 April 1937, Page 9
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