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Captain Cook Arrow Legend

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 explore 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." [理工類C]

庫克船長弓箭的傳說

這本是個絕妙的傳說，但DNA測試最終結束了這個長達兩個世紀之久的古老故事。傳說是關于一支據說是用1779年在桑偉奇群島死去的英國探險家船長詹姆士·庫克的遺骨刻成的夏威夷弓箭。
在不久前DNA證據宣布該弓箭并非來自于庫克船長的遺骨時，澳大利亞博物館收藏經理尤帝·菲利普說：“澳大利亞博物館里并沒有庫克的遺骨。”但這并不能停止博物館在展覽會上展出弓箭。“考古發現：澳大利亞博物館的寶藏”展覽中的確還展示了一個在1778年夏威夷國王卡蘭尼歐普送給庫克的一個羽毛斗篷。