The following letters have been handed to us (Daily Press) with a request for publication Hongkong, 23rd August, 1880. "To Professor NORDENSKIOLD, &o., Academy of Sciences, Stockholm.
Sm,—On the occasion of the public welcome given to yourself and your gallant comrades of the Vega, by the residents of this city, on the Srd November last, you were informed that the admiration felt for the great deed you had accomplished was taking another and more enduring form than that which was embodied in the panegyrics and cheers of the moment.
It now becomes my pleasing duty, therefore, to inform you that a silver vase will go forward by the mail steamer this day addressed to the British Minister at Stockholm with the request that ho will take the earliest opportunity of handing it to you on behalf of the Community of Hongkong, and it is their hope that you will be pleased to accept the same, The spirit in which the offering had its origin and is now made, is embodied in the words you will find engraved thereon, which are as follo "To Professor Adolf Eric Nordonskiold, the Discoverer of the North-East Pass: in remembrance of his visit to this, the first British port on the Homeward route of the Vega, November, 1879. This Vase is presented asa token of their appreciation of his great enterprise, by the residents of Hongkong."
It only remains for me to express a wish that you may live long and happily to add fresh lustre to Science and Progross,—I remain, Sir, your obedient servant, Jas, B, Covorrnie, Hon. Secretary, Nordenskiold Testimonial."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.