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Captain Cook

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Noun1.Captain Cook - English navigator who claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain and discovered several Pacific islands (1728-1779)Captain Cook - English navigator who claimed the east coast of Australia for Britain and discovered several Pacific islands (1728-1779)
Captain James Cook, James Cook, Cook
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It was an odd sensation to see his very familiar face established quite at home in that very unfamiliar room and region; and I found myself looking at him, much as I looked at the corner-cupboard with the glass and china, the shells upon the chimney-piece, and the coloured engravings on the wall, representing the death of Captain Cook, a ship-launch, and his Majesty King George the Third in a state-coachman's wig, leather-breeches, and top-boots, on the terrace at Windsor.
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The last voyage of that renowned but unfortunate discoverer, Captain Cook, had made known the vast quantities of the sea-otter to be found along that coast, and the immense prices to be obtained for its fur in China.
Astoria or Anecdotes of an enterprise beyond the Rocky Mountains by Irving, Washington View in context
You wave an airy adieu to the boys on shore, light your biggest pipe, and swagger about the deck as if you were Captain Cook, Sir Francis Drake, and Christopher Columbus all rolled into one.
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