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Captain Cook Arrow Legend C 库克船长弓箭的传说 CIt was a great legend while it lasted, 这本是个绝妙的传说，but DNA testing has finally ended a two-century-old story 但DNA测试最终结束了这个长达两个世纪之久的古老故事。of the Hawaiian arrow carved from the bone of British explorer Captain James Cook who died in the Sandwich Islands in 1779. 传说是关于一支据说是用1779年在桑伟奇群岛死去的英国探险家船长詹姆士?库克的遗骨刻成的夏威夷弓箭。“There is no Cook in the Australian Museum,” museum collection manager Jude Philip said 澳大利亚博物馆收藏经理尤大书?费利普说：“澳大利亚博物馆里并没有库克的遗骨。not long ago in announcing the DNA evidence that the arrow was not made of Cooks bone. 在不久前DNA证据宣布该弓箭并非来自于库克船长的遗骨时，But that will not stop the museum from continuing to display the arrow in its exhibition, 但这不能停止博物馆在展览会上展出弓箭。”“Uncovered: Treasures of the Australian Museum,” which does include a feather cape presented to Cook by Hawaiian King Kalani’opu’u in 1778. 考古发现：澳大利亚博物馆的宝藏展览中的确还展示了一个在1778年夏威夷国王卡兰尼欧普送给库克的一个羽毛斗篷。Cook was one of Britain’s great explorers and is credited with discovering the “Great South Land,” now Australia, in 1770. 库克是英国最伟大的探险家之一，他在1770年发现了“南大陆”，也就是现在的澳大利亚。He was clubbed to death in the Sandwich Islands, now Hawaii. 此后在桑伟奇群岛也就是今天的夏威夷群岛被棒击致死。The legend of Cook’s arrow began in 1824 库克弓箭传说始于1824年，Hawaiian King Kamehameha on his deathbed gave the arrow to William Adams, a London surgeon and relative of Cook’s wife, 当时夏威夷国王在弥留之际将弓箭赐给了库克的妻子的亲戚，一名伦敦外科医生威廉亚当斯，saying it was made of Cook’s bone after the fatal fight with islanders. 并告诉他弓箭是在那次致命殴打后用库克的遗骨做成的。In the 1890s the arrow was given to the Australian Museum and the legend continued until it came face-to-face with science. 在19世纪90年代，弓箭被交给澳大利亚博物馆。这个传说直到与科学直接接触才停止。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. 据费利普说，澳大利亚和新西兰的实验室的DNA测试证实弓箭并非取材于库克的遗骨，而更可能是来自动物的骨头。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, 但是，库克迷们却