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King's Gift to Maritime Museum CAPTAIN COOK JOURNALS
(Eeceived 29., 12.30 p.m.) EUGBY, April 28. To mark his visit down the river to Greenwich, when he opened the new natioqal Maritime Museum, His Majesty the King presented that institution with two priceless manuscript journals kept by Captain Cook. One of these records his flrst voyage in 1760, when he rediBCovered and entircly charted New Zealand and the eastertt coast of Australia, circumnavigating the globe and proving that scurvy could be conquered. The second journal covers the Second voyage in 1772, in whdch he disproved theories about a great southern continent. The volumes have been in the Royal Library at Windsor.5
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Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 87, 29 April 1937, Page 5
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