CAPTAIN COOK'S DOCTOR.

Dominion, Volume 4, Issue 1036, 27 January 1911, Page 7

CAPTAIN COOK'S DOCTOR.

WAS IT HIS COFFIN? (By .Telegraph.—Special. Correspondent.) Christchurch, January 26. A gentleman, who has been prominently connected with New Brighton for many years, in chatting to a representative of "The Press," recounted the story of a very gruesome find he made in the, early days of the watering place. Some thirty years ago, he remarked, he vcas walking along tho'beach with his wife when they came upon the framework of a coffin containing human remains. The covering of sand having been washed away by wind and tide, the remains were afterwards decently buried, and ■ it subsequently transpired that many .years before the same coffin had been discovered by a Christchurch resident, who had left it with the intention of'.returning to it, but had afterwards been unable to find it. The opinion was expressed at the time, said the informant, that the remains wore those, of the doctor who accompanied Captain Cook, as.the famous navigator mentions iu the account of his voyages that when his doctor, died off the New Zealand coast he was buried on a "low sandy beach."