RECEPTION AT NAPLES. 
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At Capri a flag-ornamented steamer from Sorrento met us; 
somewhat later, another from Naples, both of which accom¬ 
panied us to the harbour. Here the Swedish expedition was 
saluted by an American war-vessel, the Wyoming, with twenty- 
one guns. The harbour swarmed with boats adorned with 
flags. Scarcely had the Vega anchored—or more correctly 
been moored to a buoy—when the envoy Lindstrand, the 
Swedish-Norwegian consul Clausen, Prince Teano, president 
of the Geographical Society, Commander Martin Pranklin, 
Commendatore Negri, and others came on board. The last- 
named, who nearly two years before had made a special journey 
to Sweden to be present at the departure of the Vega, now 
came from Turin commissioned by the Italian government, and 
deputed by the municipalities of Florence and Venice, the 
Turin Academy of Sciences, and several Italian and foreign 
geographical societies, to welcome the Expedition, which had 
now brought its labours to a happy issue. 
After Herr Lindstrand, as King Oscar’s representative, had 
welcomed the Expedition to Europe, and publicly conferred 
Swedish decorations on Palander and me, and two adjutants of 
the Italian Ministry of Marine had likewise distributed Italian 
orders to some of the Vega men, some short speeches were 
exchanged, on which the members of the Expedition, accom¬ 
panied by the persons enumerated above, landed in the 
Admiral’s steam-launch under a salute of twenty-one guns 
from the Italian guard-ship. On the landing-quay, where 
a large crowd of the inhabitants of the city was assembled, 
the Swedish seafarers were received by the Syndic of Naples, 
Count GlUSSO, accompanied by a deputation from the munici¬ 
pality, &c. Here we were taken, between rows of enthusiastic 
students, in the gala carriages of the municipality, to the Hotel 
Koyal des fitrangeres, where a handsome suite of apartments, 
along with equipages and numerous attendants, was placed at 
our disposal. We were there received by the committee in 
