hist-games: Captain's Mistress

[Chas]

Had a Girl Scout leader asking about date for the origin of the 
"Captain's Mistress" (aka ("Connect Four" on Milton Bradley's copyright 
version). I have a wooden version we got from The Museum Company store 
that had an insert that makes the claim: "Captain Cook, on his three 
major voyages of the South Pacific would retire to his quarters along 
with his fellow shipboard scientists to play this game."
D. Parlett's "Oxford History of Board Games" simply says it is a 
traditional game.

Chas

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