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What did Captain Cook have on his second voyage?
This news arrived on: 08/22/2008
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08-27-2008 14:05
moi wrote:
Limeys
I, too, have read that the term "Limeys" resulted from the use of limes for the prevention of scurvy.
08-27-2008 07:58
Effie wrote:
Captain Cook
Captain Cook made "tea" from a native shrub and used other greenery to give his men vitamin C when he was in New Zealand on his 2nd voyage We have a plant commonly called native spinach that grows low to the ground that was said to be one of the plants used by Cook.
I understand Cook took lime juice, not lemon with him, and that is why the English seamen are still called Limeys.
I understand Cook took lime juice, not lemon with him, and that is why the English seamen are still called Limeys.
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