Cook relic found
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A piece of cloth said to have been bartered by Captain Cook to people of Tongatapu, Tonga’s main island, has turned up in Suva. The cloth was attached to a letter written in 1918 by the then Acting Premier of Tonga, U. Tugi.
The letter was in a chest of Fiji Museum exhibits which turned up in the Chief Secretary’s Office. The chest became mislaid during World War II when many exhibits from the Fiji Museum were moved to an air raid shelter for safe-keeping.