414 MODERN VIKINGS IN THE ARCTIC SEAS 



Passage, a feat which had been attempted in vain for four centuries. 

 The news spread rapidly round the world, as a new and great; 

 victory by man over the Arctic problem, a further step in the con- 

 quest of the earth. 



With the coming of a new summer, the "Gjoa" was taken 

 farther on her record-making voyage, and in October, 1906, King 

 Haakon received a telegram from the explorer that his ship had 

 safely arrived at Cape Nome, Alaska. Little more time was needed 

 to bring him and his crew safely home, where an enthusiastic recep- 

 tion awaited them, as having won for Norway one of the world's 

 great geographical prizes. 



