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Show BHUNDSEN WINS FRENCH HONORS Explorer Who Sailed Near - Pole and Through North-west North-west Passage Made Commander, Com-mander, Legion of Honor PARIS. March 8. Amundsen, the daring dar-ing Norwegian explorer who accomplished the Northwest passage In his forty-seven-ton Gjoa, spending nineteen months' of his three-years' voyage making obserta-tiona obserta-tiona in thV vicinity of the magnetic pole, has been lionized in Paris. President Fallieres, decorated the explorer a tj-mander tj-mander of the Legion of Honor. Amsvd-sen Amsvd-sen has given lectures before the vaiTjus scientific societies and gave a private talk upon his experiences for the benellt of France's forty "Immortals" at the residence resi-dence of Prince Roland Bonaparte, who has recently been elected to the institute. insti-tute. "Nansen." says Amundsen, "was always al-ways fascinated by the idea of fie Northwest North-west p.ibsuge, wh'ch had been attempted o many times and never found, yet I saw it open before my ship the first year of my voyage and would not take advantage ad-vantage of the chance because my program pro-gram was to make observations at he magnetic pole.- In the end, it is true, I did navigate the Northwest passage, though when I accomplished it it was much more difficult than when I saw it the first yeai." |