Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1884-10-05
GREELY WAS HUNGRY.

His PftiabIe Condition When Found
Newspapers In the Arctics-News OF
Garfield's Assassination In a Whaler's
Cache.
An in terview with Lieut.. Uriel Sebree
of the relief ship Thetis, published in the
Kansas City Journal, brings out some adj
ditionaI facts of interest in regard to
Greely's condition when discovered, and
other facts relating to the party. BE
says: "Hunger, suffering, mental dis
tress, and the hopelessness begotten of
abject despair, had unhinged Lieut..
Greedy, and made him irresponsible. He
and the rest of 'em seemed to think of no.
thing but something to eat, and when rot
supplied according to their cravings they
did not hesitate to deal out abuse. Edu-
cation has mighty little show to curb the
animal in man when his ratiOns are
locked TO the degree that these poor
fellows WERE" Illustrative of what
he meant, the Lieutenant went on
to say: ''Now. there is Lieut.. Greedy; he
is scholarly man, refined in his tastes,
and possessed of great will power, or he
never would have survived the rigor to
which he was exposed. He, however,
could not curb the animal in him. Hun
ger and greed for something to eat over
came all sentiment and every other desire
Will ullis Nit-t vi luG party 6HSuGu 10
be 0VerjOyed at their rescue, except for
the one reason they would get something
to eat. AS soon as Lieut.. 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
beef tea, and he eyed the process with
eagerness. Thinking he would like first
to hear of his family, told him how they
had been lett well six weeks ago, and
1o6 u ,TaNrT Of I, sex s.
children taken six weeks previously. He
glanced at the picture, glanced only, for
he could not keep his eyes off the steward
and the beef tea, and said nothing.
1.-The doctor fed him at short intervals,
but more was his constant cry. To further
illustrate how ravenOus man can be-
come, noticed the doctor hand him a
thin piece of raw meat. He cut off
piece of it and grabbed it in his teeth, but
while doing this he held to the other
piece and furtively looked around as if he
feared someone would try to take it away
from him.
HE ate more than any of us when he
got so he was allowed to indulge his
appetite. One day he remarked: Gentle
men, as great an eater as l 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 L am going to
give more time and thought to it,
'Po0r fellow, he did not sleep for thirty
SIX hours after he came aboard the The
tbs. The first thing he asked tor was his
bitters, and insisted upon having them,
but was deprived of them for a time. He
then called on us to tell him the news.
"'What,' he said, has taken place in
three years? Tell me-
GAS matter of fact, the first thing, of
course, that rushed to our minds was the
death of Garfield, and we told him of it,"
81 know that he said, and we ex-
claimed. how in the world did you know |?
'Then it turned out" said Lieut.. Sc
bree, "that in cache they had found,
which had been made by Bcebe on the
first unsuccessful effort to relieve the
Greedy colony, were two dozen lemons,
and around each of these a scrap of news
paper had been wrapped, and from these
scraps the colony had learned of Garfeld'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 lee
ture to the men. They say his memory
is perfectly wonderful, and he says every
thing that he had ever read or heard
returned to him vivIdly while in the
Arctic solitude.
'Lieut. LockWood's death was very sad.
Weeks before his death he became queer.
The men first noticed when Lieut., Greedy
or others of the party were relating some
experience to divert the minds of the
suffering little band from the contempla-
ton of the dreariness and hopelessness of
their desolation, Lieut.. Lockwood would
mOrosely sit by, pay no attention, but
suddenly interrupt by circulating:
Roast beef, mashed pOtatoes,' or
something OF that kind.
Gle died maniac. He it was who
went nearest the north pole, and was, in
fact, the sturdiest man of the command,
though he was the second one who died
of starvation.
''Lieut. Greedy was a hard-looking citi-
zen when we found him. He had not
washed or changed his clothes for eleven
months. His whiskers were long and
matted, hair the same, and his face and
hands were grimed with dirt. He was so
weak he could not walk, and his flesh
hung in flabby folds on him. He recuper-
ated rapidly, and when he reached
St. John he could eat anything. He
went ashore TO the American COnsul's
house, and on leaving the ship the doctor
cautioned him about eating too much, and
especially said he must eat no veal. As
i'll luck would have it, his hostess on the
second day, not knowing, of course, had
splendid roast of veal, and Lieut.. Greedy
just gorged himself. The result was that
he had the almightest belly-ache a man
ever had, and came near dying"