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Thames Star, Volume XI, Issue 3572, 8 June 1880, Page 3

The success which has followed Professor Nordenskjold in making the Northeast passage seems to have awakened the Swedes to renewed energy. Many a time and 6ft has their flag been seen hovering about the frozen boundaries of the Arctic regions, but the ambition^ now is to penetrate the uttermost mysteries of the opposite—the Antarctic—Pole. The learned men of Sweden persist in believing that a vast mass of land encircles the nominal point spoken of as the Southern Pole, and intend to persevere with their explorations, with a view to an ultimate discovery. They do not believe in Australia being the true Austral region, balancing the weight of the globe, and they still -i^ut faith in the tradition of Juan Fernandez, who declared that he found, far beyond New Zealand, a country very fertile, and inhabited by an almost civilised people. "We may, or may not, expect such a solution of the existing doubt, but these enterprises are rarely barren of results. Thua the last great expedition in search of a Southern Continent brought to light Pitcairn Island, the New Hebrides, and Torres Straits; and any Government encouraging similar adVentures is deserving of praise.

A Japanese student in New Haven went to spend the evening with a young lady. On coming away she invited him to call again soon. He called again in about an hour.

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