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COPENHAGEN. 
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exhausted, but bringing with us memories which shall never 
pass away, we travelled the following day to Vlissingen, whither 
the V^ga had gone from Falmouth, under the command of 
Brusewitz. We had been compelled to decline warm and 
hearty invitations to Holland and Belgium from want of time 
and strength to take part in any more festivities. The anchor 
Avas weighed immediately after Ave came on board, and the 
course shaped for Copenhagen. At noon on the 15th we passed 
Helsingborg, Avhich was richly ornamented with flags for the 
occasion. Already at Kullaberg Ave had been met by the 
steamer H. P. Prior, with Lund students on board, and eight 
other steamers Avith deputations of Avelcome and enthusiasts for 
the voyage of the Vega, from Copenhagen, Malmo, Helsingborg, 
and Elsinore. The number of passengers Avas stated to be 1,500, 
including a number of ladies. Songs Avere sung, speeches made, 
fireworks let off, &c. At night Ave lay at anchor in the outer 
road of Copenhagen, so that it Avas not until the following fore¬ 
noon that Ave steamed into the harbour, saluting the fort with 
nine shots of our little cannon, and saluted in turn by as many. 
While the Vega Avas sailing into the harbour, and after she had 
anchored, there came on board the SAvedisli Minister, Baron 
Beck-Feiis, the SAvedish consul-general Eveelof, the re¬ 
presentatives of the University, of the merchants, and of the 
Geographical Society under the 23residency of the former President 
of the Council, Count Holstein-Holsteinboeg, to bring us a 
Avelcome from the corporations they represented, and accompany 
us to the Toldbod, where Ave Avere received by the President-in¬ 
chief, the Presidents of the Communal Authority, and the Bourse, 
and the Swedish Unions of Copenhagen. We then drove through 
the festively ornamented city, saluted by resounding hurrahs, 
from a countless throng of human beings, to the Plotel 
d’Angleterre, Avhere apartments had been prepared for us. On 
the 17th a fete aa^s given by the Geographical Society in the 
Casino Hall, AAdiich Avas attended by the King, the CroAvn Prince, 
