文档介绍：Captain Cook Arrow Legend(库克船长弓箭的传说)
It was a great legend while it lasted, but DNA testing has finally ended a
two-century-old story of the Hawaiian arrow carved from the bone of British
explorer Captain James Cook who died in the Sandwich Islands in 1779.
“There is no Cook in the Australian Museum,” museum collection manager Jude
Philip said not long ago in announcing the DNA evidence that the arrow was not
made of Cook’s bone. But that will not stop the museum from continuing to display
the arrow in its exhibition, “Uncovered: Treasures of the Australian Museum,”
which does include a feather cape presented to Cook by Hawaiian King
Kalani’opu’u in 1778.
Cook was one of Britain’s great explorers and is credited with discovering
the “Great South Land,” now Australia, in 1770. He was clubbed to death in the
Sandwich Islands, now Hawaii.
The legend of Cook’s arrow began in 1824 when Hawaiian King Kamehameha on
his deathbed gave the arrow to William Adams, a London surgeon and relative of
Cook’s wife, saying it was made of Cook’s bone after the fatal fight with
islanders.
In the 1890s the arrow was given to the Australian Museum and the legend
continued until it came face-to-face with science.
DNA testing by laboratories in Australia and New Zealand revealed the arrow
was not made of Cook’s bone but was more likely made of animal bone, said Philp.
However, Cook’s fans refuse to give up hope that one Cook legend will prove
true and that part of his remains will still be uncovered, as they say there is
evidence not all of Cook’s body was buried at sea in 1779. “On this occasion
technology has won,” said Cliff Thornton, president of the Captain Cook Society,
in a statement from Britain. “But I am sure that one of these days …one of the
Cook legends will prove to be true and it will happen one day.”
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