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THE VOYAGE OF THE VEGA. 
[CHAl’. 
Dr. Hamy, a delegate from the Geographical Society of Paris 
met us in the waiting-room at the station. Here a break¬ 
fast had been arranged, in the course of which we were 
presented to a number of eminent persons of the place, with 
whom we afterwards passed the greater part of the day in the 
most agreeable way. After making several excursions in the 
neighbourhood of the town and paying the necessary official 
visits, we partook of a festive dinner arranged by the munici¬ 
pality. From Boulogne we travelled by night to Paris, arriving 
there on the 2nd April at 7 A.M. 
Notwithstanding the early morning hour we were received 
here at the station in a festive way by the Swedish-Norwegian 
minister and the personnel of the Legation, a deputation from 
the Geographical Society of Paris, and a considerable number 
of the members of the Scandinavian colony in the capital of 
France. The famous Madagascar traveller, Grandidier, Pre¬ 
sident of the GeograjDhical Society’s Central Committee, 
welcomed us, with lively expressions of assent from the sur¬ 
rounding crowd. We were invited during our stay in the 
city to live with our countryman, A. Nobel, in a very 
comfortable villa belonging to him, Rue Malakoff, No. 53, and 
I cannot sufficiently commend the liberal way in which he here 
discharged the duties of a host and assisted us during our stay 
in Paris, which, though very agreeable and honouring to us, 
demanded an extraordinary amount of exertion. 
Our reception in Paris was magnificent, and it appeared as 
if the metropolis of the world wished to show by the - way in 
which she honoured a feat of navigation that it is not without 
reason that she bears on her shield a vessel surrounded by 
swelling billows. It is a pleasant duty for me here to offer 
my thanks for all the goodwill we, during those memorable 
days, enjoyed on the part of the President of the Republic, of 
Admiral La Ronciere le Noury, President of the Geographical 
Society, his colleague, M. HechT, M. Maunoir, the Secretary of 
