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How did Captain Cook and his crew celebrate Christmas on board the Endeavour while battling heavy seas off the northern tip of the North Island in 1769?

By feasting on freshly killed pork from the ship's menagerie washed down with ‘extra rations of wine’

With a meal of  ‘Goose pye’ (made with gannet)

With a reading from the Bible

With a programme of Christmas carols followed by an early night
Answers to all these questions can be found in the NZHistory.net.nz Kiwi Christmas topic.
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