St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-12-25
AN ARCTIC CHRISTMAS.
How the Greedy Party Spent Their
Last Christmas Among the lee
bsrgs at Cape Sabine.
A Rich Stew Of all Seal Meat With Onions, 8
Little Blubber and Bread Crumbs

Little Blubber and Bread Crumbs
WASHINGTON. Dec. 24.-The National
Republicans viii print to-morrow extracts from
the diary of Lieut.. Lockwood, of the Greedy
Arctic colony, describing the manner in
which the starving party spent the last
Christmas at Cape Sabine, In the Arctic re-
/ gion. Lieut. Lockwood kept a diary. in
shorthand, which has been transcribed by q
member Of his family, and he appears to have
made full record OF everything of import
ance which happened in the daily life Of the
party. The extracts which the Rgpas5lioaa
will print relate TO how as Christmas drew
near the officers and men joined
in a talk Of home, and planned
grand feasts1 for the tune when
they should reach tie civilized world, and
how they made preparations for 3 feast on
the approaching OF Christmas by setting
setting apart small PORTIONS OF their daily
ratinns. On December 81, Lockwood writes (:
"By great effort | was able TO save one
ounce Of my bread, and about two ounces Of
butter for Christmas. shall make vigOr-
Gus effort to abstain from eating it beforr
them He adds he put il in charge Of Bin
derbeek, as an additional safeguard.
On Dec. p, be wrote: ''Wc look forward to
tomorrow aud Christmas, - aud, Il offered to
give any one roast turkey on reaching
home, for a single dog biscuit now, but found
no takers."
lie says on the next day, 81 saved nearly
all my hard bread for Christmas, though
need 1t surely" aud that to make the Christ
mas dinner grander be made a ire
mendous effort and went without bis rum in
order 10 have il Tor Christmas, to add to the
punch. On Christmas eve be added 10 his
scanty savings tor the next days feast hal
his bread and his piece Of lemon, and be
wrote in his book as follows;
Tonight is Christmas eve, and my
thoughts are turned toward home. God
preserve me tn see this day nextyear and en-
Toy il at home with those love. Tomorrow IL
is TO be pretty much repetition Of thanks
giving. / have saved up my rum and bread.
think Of the children at home, the Christmas
tree tonight and the TOYS, etc. But my
fingers are TOO cold Ia write more. picture
10 myself my dear father aud mother, sisters,
Harry, nv niece and uncle and brOthers-in-
law, all sitting around the table tomorrow.
Turkeys aud mince pies are strewn on the
Ia Die. Many thoughts are turned toward me
and wonder waer, am at this moment"
The entry Tor Christmas day is as follows:
December 25-B rOmeter 90 80, tnermom-
eter 27.5. Chri-tmas-We have ali been
talking aud waiting anxi0usiy for the hour,
ana now ii is here, and 10 p. M nearly
gone. Breakfast consisted of a thin soup OF
peas and carrots with little blubber aud
some spoonluls Of potatoes. This we had al
! q - 4
10 each mess) at p. m. Long Ighted up
for the event Of the day, dinner. Dinner
consisted OF a ane, rich stew OF all seal meat
with onions, a little blubber, potstees
and bread crumbs. After this we had
in the course OF an hour or so a fine nice
stew, with raisins and little blu5ber aud
milk. These were pretty much the same as
Thanksgiving, but the cooks made great
deal on that day, and the meals seemed bet
ter. The cooks are now preparing some fine
| chocolate. and that viii be followed by
punch OF one gill OF ruin 70 each man. The
party have been 10 fine spirits to-day. Cheers
were given after breakfast for Lieut.. Greedy.
Corporal Ellison, Rice aud the two cooks. IL
was agreed that should give each OF the
two Esquimaux fifty cents from each men,
Der OF the expedition TO he kept for next
Christmas. Kislinbury was kind enough u
| MAKE lOI eacD Oh tue party clEArrltc. many
of US are out of tobacco entirely
On the day after Christmas be writes as
follows: Yesterday has passed, but / find
my notes Of yesterday very Imperfect. The
day was a great success. We all had enough,
or nearly enough. l had eight ounces extra,
which had saved up, one ounce OF
butter besides, and the rum OF
the Sunday before. II was agreed early
in the morning that nothing should
be said to mar the pleasures OF the day. Many
kindly thoughts were expressed for those al
! home; and, oh, how often we spoke of what
was going on a. our several homes. After
dinner We had songs in all languages, in
GLIDING French, German, Danish
and Innuit. The punch was
extremely iue. We had chocolate about
z O'Clock, and by this time most OF US were
too full for utterance, and conversation grad
ually slackened of and with the songs the
day ended. To-day we have all been
feeling extremely well all day, nice, warm
and comfortable in the extreme. Some OF
US ate too much yesterday, but only so much
as 10 feel a little uueom Portable at times, but
we all slept well. Our talk this morning was
/ OF home and our families.
have extended a general invitation
to all members of expedition to visit my
fathers house. spoke this morning of the
reunions of my family aud bow enjoyable
they are. My remarks about my father
brought tears, the first time have shed tears
since / have been in this country"