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PRICELESS MSS. JOURNALS CAPTAIN COOK’S VOYAGES PRESENTED TO NATIONAL MARITIME MUSEUM [British Official Wireless] (Received 29th April, 10.10 a.m.) RUGBY, 28th April. To mark his visit down the river to Greenwich when 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 New Zealand and the eastern coast of Australia, circumnavigating the globe and proving that, scurvy could be conquered. Tiie second journal covers the second voyage in 1772, in which he disproved the theories about a great southern continent.
The volumes have been in the Royal Library at Windsor.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 29 April 1937, Page 8
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118GIFT FROM KING Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXXI, 29 April 1937, Page 8
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