Wichita eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1883-1888, 1884-11-07
GREEDY WAS HUNGRY.
His Pitiable Condition When Found
Newspapers In the Artics.

An interview with Lieut.. Uriel Sebree, o
the relief ship Thetis, published in the Kan
sas City journal. brings out some additions
facts of interest in regard to Greely's con
ditjon when discovered, and other facts rela
ting to the party. He gays "hunger, suffer
ing, mental distress and the hopelessness be
gotten of abject despair, had unhinged Lieu
Greedy, and made him irresponsible. II,
and the rest of them seemed to think o
nothing but something TO eat, and wher
not supplied according to their crav
ings they did not hesitate TO deal on
abuse. Education has mighty little show {,
curb the animal in man when his rations ar,
locked to the degree that these poor fel
lows WERE" Illustrative of what he meant
the lieutenant went on to say: "Now, Their,
is Lieutenant Greedy; be is a scholarly man
refined in his tastes, and possessed ofgreat viii
power, or he never would have survived the
rigor to which he was exposed. He, how
ever, could not curb the animal in him
Hunger and greed for something to eai
overcame all sentiment and every other de-
sire with him None of the party seemed
TO be overioyed at their rescue, except for
the one reason they would get something 70
eat. rs soon as Lieutenant Greedy was
brought on board he was carried to
the officers cabin, being too feeble to
walk. The steward was put to making
him some eftea, and he eyed the process
with eagerness. Thinking he would like
first to hear of his family, l told him how
they had been left well six weeks ago, and
handed him picture of his wife and chill
dren taken six weeks !. eyiously. He glanced
at the picture, glanced only, for he could
not keep his eyes off the steward and the
aaaf faa ood eoid vofhtpu
The doctor fed him at short intervals, but
more was his constant cry. To further H.
lustrate how ravenous man may become,
noticed the doctor hand him thin piece of
raw meat. He cut offa piece and grabbed it
in his teeth, but while doing this he held to
the other piece and furatively looked around
as if he feared some one would try to take it
away from him.
He ate more than any Of US when he got
so he was allowed To indulge bis appetite.
One day he remarked: Gentlemen, as great
an eater as seem, my wife used to say was
the smallest she ever saw.
"Then Lieut.. Greedy, after moments
pause, said very soberly, and without any
semblance Of Joking: People do not think
enough about eating, anyway. Hereafter |
am goin e to give more time and thought
TO it,
sPoor fellow, be did not sleep for thirty
six hours after be came aboard the Thetis.
The first thing he asked for was his bitters,
and insisted upon having them, but was de-
prived of them for q time. He then called
on US to tell him the news.
"'W hat be said, has taken place in three
years, Tell me-
AS matter of fact, the first thing Of
course, that rushed to our minds was the
death of Garfield, and We told him of it,"
AZ know that he said, and we exclaim-
ed, how in the world did you know
"Then it turned out" said Lieutenant
Sekbree, shat in cache they had
found, which had been made by Beebe
on the first unsuccessful effort to relieve the
Greedy colony, were two dozen lemons, and
around each of these a scrap of newspaper
had been wrapped, and from these scraps the
colony had learned of GarReld's death; and
it was surprising, too, how many other things
they had learned from these scraps of paper.
They read and re-read them. 1t afforded
them diversion, and TO further divert their
minds Lieut.. Greedy. as long as he was able,
would lecture TO the men. They say his
is perfectly wonderful, and he says
that he had ever read or heard
70 him wildly while in the Arctic !
,olitude.