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a thousand miles was made at the average rate of about twenty-five miles a day; 
the fastest time on record, considering that both officer and men were hauling 
sledges or carrying loads all the time. On this journey and the subsequent boat 
voyage, about seven hundred miles of unknown coast line of Wollaston and 
Victoria lands were traced, and Victoria Strait discovered and named, remarkable 
for being the channel in which the crews of the Franklin Expedition abandoned 
their ships in 1848. Rae’s boats coming from the South, having reached a point 
on the west shore of the strait in a higher latitude than that where the ships were 
left, formed a last link in the Northwest passage. 
These three expeditions were wholly paid for by the British government, and 
therefore should be included in the chronological list referred to. 
Yours, &c., 
| Joun an 
HONORS TO NORDENSKJOLD. 
The Swedish government has resolved to award a national testimonial to the 
-members of the Expedition under Professor Nordenskjold’s direction. The testi- 
monial is not intended for the officers and scientists of the Expedition alone, but 
for all the men who shared in its dangers and discoveries. King Oscar gives to 
each man a medal bearing on one side the head of the Sovereign with the 
inscription, ‘‘Oscar II, King of Sweden and Norway,” and on the other the 
insignia of the order of the Northern Star, with the legend ‘‘ For having opened 
a route in the Glacial Arctic Ocean, 1878-1879.’’ Fifty copies of this medal will 
be struck off—four of them in gold and the remainder in silver. 
_ Nordenskjold reached Paris April 2, accompanied by Captain Pallander, the 
sharer of his adventures in the North. They were received at the railway station 
by delegates of the various scientific societies—M. Grandidier, president, and M. 
Maunoir, secretary of the Geographical society; M. Siebbern, Swedish Ambassa- 
dor, with several attachés; M. Rabaud, representing the Societé de Marseilles; 
M. Meyners d’Estreye, President of the Societé Indo-Chinoise; Dr. Crevaux, the 
young explorer of French Guiana; a deputation of Swedish residents and a few 
journalists, including your correspondent Nordenskjold looked the very picture 
of health and seemed vigorous enough for a dozen Arctic expeditiofis. He was 
dressed with the utmost simplicity in a light traveling suit. Captain Pallander 
appeared to be very much embarrassed in the attire of a private gentleman, being 
so long accustomed to his naval uniform. M. Grandidier said that he was happy 
to meet such a distinguished visitor and bade him welcome in the name of the 
geographical societies of Paris and the Departments and of the scientific societies of 
France. A banquet was given them on the night of April 4th, by the members 
of the Swedish Colony in Paris. Upward of two hundred gentlemen and ladies 
of Swedish nationality were present. But few invitations to foreigners were 
issued, and these merely to the press. The grand saloon of the Continental Hotel 
was tastefully arranged for the occasion, one of the decorations being a carved 
