It was a great legend while it lasted, but DNA testing has___ended a two-century-old story of the Hawaiian arrow carved from the bone of British explorer Captain James Cook___died in the Sandwich Islands in 1779.
There is___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 Cooks bone. But that will not stop the museum from continuing to display the arrow in its___, Uncovered: Treasures of the Australian Museum, which___include a feather cape presented to Cook by Hawaiian King Kalaniopuu in 1778.
Cook was one of Britains great explorers and is credited with___the Great South Land,___Australia, in 1770. He was clubbed to death in the Sandwich Islands, now Hawaii.
The legend of Cooks arrow began in 1824___Hawaiian King Kamehameha on his deathbed gave the arrow to William Adams, a London surgeon and relative of Cooks wife, saying it was made of Cooks bone after the fatal___with islanders.
In the 1890s the arrow was given to the Australian Museum and the legend continued___it came face-to-face with science.
DNA testing by laboratories in Australia and New Zealand revealed the arrow was not made of Cooks bone but was more___made of animal bone, said Philp.
However, Cooks fans___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 Cooks body was___at sea in 1779. On this occasion technology has won, said Cliff Thornton, president of the Captain Cook Society, in a___from Britain. But I am___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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