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THE Neapolitans are preparing to fête Prof. Nordenskjöld, who intends staying a short time in Southern Italy before returning overland, to Sweden. The Vega arrived at Galle on the 16th inst. We have received from Hongkong an account of the reception given to Prof. Nordenskjöld and the officers of the Vega, on arriving at that Eastern limit of the British Empire. At the close of an official banquet at Government House, Governor Hennessy congratulated Prof. Nordenskjöld and his staff in the warmest terms. “We behold,” he said, “as it were in this remote outpost of Europe, the writing of the last words in the last chapter of heroic maritime discovery.” Captain Palander brought down to the drawing-room; the actual charts he had used during the voyage, and throughout the evening they were inspected by the Governor's guests with great interest. The charts were Russian ones, and one of the minor results of the expedition has been the establishment of the fact that they are not accurate, inasmuch as a great deal that was put down as land was actually sailed over by the Vega. The route was marked in red ink and pencil and showed these inaccuracies. Some specimens of the plants from the region where the Vega was so long bound up in the ice and photographs of the natives were also on the drawing-room tables. We understand Prof. Nordenskjöld, before his departure, received from his Excellency, as a present to the Vega expedition, an herbarium of the plants of Hongkong and South China, prepared by Mr. Ford, the head of the Botanical Department of the Colony.
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Geographical Notes . Nature 21, 189–190 (1879). https://doi.org/10.1038/021189b0
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