Among the passengers on board our steamer there was a Norwegian professor, with whom I talked, trying to remember the little that I formerly had known of the Swedish language. “But as you speak some Norwegian,” he said to me, “and arc trying to learn it, let us both speak it.”“You mean Swedish?” I ventured to ask. “I speak Swedish, don’t I?”“Well, I should say it is rather Norwegian; surely not Swedish,” was his reply. Thus happened to me what happened to one of Jules Verne’s heroes, who had learned by mistake Portuguese instead of Spanish. At any rate, I talked a good deal with the professor, — let it be in Norwegian, — and he gave me a Christiania paper, which contained the reports of the Norwegian North Atlantic deep-sea expedition, just returned home.