London, Apr. 28.
To mark his visit down the Thames to Greenwich, when yesterday he opened the new National Maritime Museum, the King has presented that Institution with two priceless manuscript journals kept by Capt. James Cook.
One of thole records his frst voyage In 1760, in command of HMS. Endeavour, when he re-discovered and entirely charted New Zealand and. the Eastern coast of Australia, circumnavigated the globe and proved that scurvy could be conquered.
The second journal covers his second voyage in' 1772 in which he Gisproved the theories about the great southern continent. The Volumes had been inthe Royal Library at Windsor—Wireless through Reuter, es
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