CAPTAIN COOK
THE QREAT DISCOVERER. ANNIVERSARY OF FIRST LANDING. On October 5, 1769, Captain James Cook, the great English navigator, first landed on the shores of New Zealand. From Ills three voyages into the Pacific he took back accounts of Australia, New Zealand, Tahiti, the Society Islands, New Caledonia, and the Sandwich Islands. in 1755 Cook joined the Royal Navy, and In 1761 lie was appointed marine surveyor of Newfoundland and Labrador. His charts and observations attracted. the attcnlion of the Royal Society, and he was Invited to take part in an expedition to observe the transit of Venus. Captain Cook accepted the offer, and set sail for the southern ocean in the Endeavour. After fullllling liis scienlilTo obligations, Captain Cook pushed southward to New Zealand and Australia. 110 was received with enthusiasm on ills return to England, and it was not long before lie again set out for the south, this time in command of the Resolution. For three years he cruised about the Pacific, and in all tills time be lost only one man through Illness. His next voyage was in quest for tho north-west passage. A wall of ice blocked his passage to the northward, and he returned to the Sandwich Islands (Honolulu). There lie met ills death at the hands of treacherous natives.
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Waikato Times, Volume 118, Issue 19699, 5 October 1935, Page 9
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