The New York herald., 1879-11-17

ton" deputation from the universities OF Upsals
and Lund. consisting OF professor and nve eminent
and eyerywhere as they travelled ia Finland in the
most Cordial manner. Innumerable speeches were
spoken in their honor. and even the older men did
not weigh with any special care the words with
which the guests from the dear old mother country
were welcomed. all to the great provocation of
Count Won Berg. who was childish enough to con-
sidor as treason such reception, called forth by
grand and illustrious common memories of many
centuries old. and debt OF gratitude for culture.
freedom, national existence, which be for
gotten. In Won Bergs favor it may be mentioned
that lie had not yet been able to comprehend the
peculiar duaism which then prevailed in Finland
between Russian despotsm and the habit of freedom
At the parting festival I. who otherwise seldom
appeared speaker, was asked to propose toast
o request which from my position among the ''pro-
mott could scarcely decline. My speech was not
long and was naturally in the tone that prevailed
during the course of the entertainmsnts.f perhaps
some what moro pointed than the Others which had
the fortune to fall unnoticed into the forget
fulness. concluded with verse by X. Vetterhof,
in which he calls for toast "to our memories ALL
and to the time that mas been and the time that shall
come. II only 1t does not bring Finlands fall.
toast to the days OF memory that have fed and the
hope that still remains.
Won Berg. his old enemy. got wind of it. and
finally young Nordenskjold. under advice, crossed
the frontier to Sweden with an old passport In the
fall OF 1858 he returned to Finland but ON applying
for q pass to to Sweden he was brought be-
fore Won Berg. who wished to extract from him an
expression OF regret for his Of the old passport
the speech. and SO on. Nordenskj0ld refused this.
"You shall have your pass. but you may say goodby
to Finland; shall to that" So it was that he
went the border. and soon after began his Ca
reer of exploration. going with the Swedish Spitz-
bergen expedition. He married Finnish lady and
resided most of his time when not exploring at
Stockholm. where he may talk politics to
his hearts content. Won Berg has been long
since out Of the way and Nordenskjold
meets no let hindrance when he chooses to go to
Helsingfors. 1t is enough here to enumerate his
principal voyages. These were with Torell to
Spitzbergen and Greenland in 1858 and with Torell
again in 1861; tho Swedish Arctic expedition of
1864. the Swedish polar expedition Of 1868, the
Swedish Greenland expedition in 1870; the Swedish
polar expedition of 1928; the voyage along the
north coast of Europe and Asia in 1876 to the
Yenisse and ascent of the river. fitted at the
pense of Mr.. Oscar Dickson, Of Gothenburg the
mercantile M@cenas of the North; the second voy-
age in 1875 to the Yensse at the expense Of Dickson
and Sbiriakoff. wealthy Siberian. and finally the
great voyage OF the Northeast Passage recently
ried through SO triumphantly. When Nordenskj0ld
once more drops anchor in Swedish port he will
have circumnavigated Europe and Asia for the FIRST
time in the history Of tho world.