AN EXPLORER.

Colonist, Volume XLVIII, Issue 11675, 10 July 1906, Page 4

AN EXPLORER.

Nansen, the Arctic explorer, or to : give bim bis full designation, hiS - Excellency Professor Fridtjof Nan- , sen, Norwegian Minister in London, , was .the gzeat attraction at the , annual meeting of the British and - Foreign Sailors* Society, held in the Mansion House, fie gave an adg dress, and received from the hafads - of the Lord Mayor a biidt of Nelson - on a baße of oak from the -Victory; with an inscription to the effect that by the presentation a brave Arctic explorer was linked with heroio British sailors. Dr. Nansen received it, not as a tribute to himself, but to the nation he represented, ' ' the next most seafaring nation in the world after England."