Cook, Captain

COOK Captain s been by four times. Looking for you. 

Doughnuts are made in many shapes but the ring shape has acquired some folklore. It is said that a ship s captain had them made like this to allow them to be put on the spokes of the ship s wheel. There is a more prosaic explanation. If the product is fried the heat can only travel slowly through the product because it is a poor conductor of heat. The hole in the middle prevents a situation where the outside becomes over cooked before the middle is cooked. 

Of course he wondered why.The ship s captain gave him a clue when he said, "The cooks have been just emptying their greasy water through the scuppers, which has greased the sides of those ships [at the end] a little. ... 

Fig. 3. Location of drill holes in the Fisohells Brook and Flat Bay areas illustrating salt and potash interoepts and highlighting PF-2, Flat Bay-101-1 and Captain Cook-1, seleoted for the current bromine geochemistry study.

Both Australia and New Zealand have indigenous tea trees in the family Myrtaceae, which were reputedly used for brewing tea by Captain Cook. There is, however, no resemblance between real tea Camellia sinensis, Camelliaceae, and the taste or odor of these species. The Australian tea tree oil from Melaleuca alternifolia and other Melaleuca species has strong antimicrobial potential (see Lis-Balchin et al., 2000, for a review and references). 

Long before Captain Cook discovered Australia and drank tea made from the leaves of the tea tree, Australian Aboriginals used the leaves of this tree for various purposes, including its healing properties. The leaves were ground up and formed into packages with clay, which were used to treat all kinds of skin conditions and infections. Tea tree oil is... 

The first report on use of Amanita muscaria mushrooms among Siberian tribesmen didn t appear until 1730. Forty-one years later, a Swedish botanist accompanying Captain James Cook on his first voyage to the... 

New Caledonia, an island situated in the South Pacific discovered by Captain Cook in 1774, was at one time used as a French convict station. In 1865 Gamier discovered nickel there, but its presence in commercial quantities was not proved until 1874. The following year over 300 tons of ore were exported, an amount that increased to 94,154 tons in 1914. The ore known as Garnierite, in honour of its discoverer, is a hydrated silicate of nickel and magnesium. It contains on an average 1 to 8 per cent, of nickel based on the dry weight after... 

AO/FRS - scavenges DPPH, nitrite (NO -), OH, 02 02-, ONOO- regenerates a-Tocopherol from a-Tocopheryl radical antiageing nutriceutical vitamin C-deficiency disease scurvy cured by lime juice — found by Dr James Lind promoted by Captain James Cook in British navy (18th century) — hence limeys Dr Lind befriended poet Percy Shelley was thence the source for Frankenstein or The Modern Prometheus by Mary Wollstonecrafi Shelley... 

So wrote Captain Cook in 1774 during a sea voyage. A fish unknown to him or his naturalist had been caught and was prepared for dinner. Thankfully Cook did not eat very much of it, otherwise it is unlikely he would have survived to recount his experience. 

The first attempted measurements of the astronomical unit during the 1761 transit were unsuccessful. However, several observers reported a halo around Venus as it entered and exited the Sun s disk. Thomas Bergman in Uppsala and Mikhail Lomonosov in St. Petersburg, independently speculated that the halo was due to an atmosphere on Venus. Eight years later observations of the 1769 solar transit (including those made by Captain Cook s expedition to Tahiti) gave a value of 1 AU = 153 million kilometers, —2.3% larger than the actual size (149.6 million kilometers) of the astronomical unit (Woolf, 1959 Maor, 2000). 

Captain James Cook, the explorer, was one of the first scientists to study the oceans natural history. A surge in scientific studies took place in the seventeenth century, during which scientists fried for the fist time to combine the scientific method with sailors knowledge. 

Figure 1.4 One of the earliest surviving drawings (from 1769) of Piper methystkum by Daniel Scholander. Note that the plant is denoted in the drawing as P. inebrians, re-named P. methystkum by Captain Cook s botanist Johann Forster. Reproduced with permission from the Natural History Museum, London.

Traced the routes Captain Cook sailed in the Pacific... 

Read a book about Captain Cook in Hawaii... 

Wrote a short story about the natives at the cove where Captain Cook was murdered... 

The puffer fish toxin. Captain Cook severely affected in 1774. The fish is prepared by trained cooks and eaten as fugu in Japan. Also found in ovaries and liver of related fish species and some cephalopods. Non-protein MW 319. Effects numbness and tingling of lips, vomiting, fall in BP, weakness, paralysis, respiratory failure, death. Lethal dose in mice 5 pg/kg among the most potent of toxins. Blocks sodium channels and prevents depolarization. Believed to be produced by bacteria in the fish. Looked at by Japan in WWII as a potential CW agent. 

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