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GIFT FROM KING TO MUSEUM. COOK'S VOYAGE TO NEW ZEALAND.
Rugby, April 28.
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 provlng that scurvy could be conquered. The seeond 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.
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Taranaki Daily News, 30 April 1937, Page 7
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