The Mineral argus., 1884-11-27
GREEDY WAS

An interview with Lieut.. Uriel Sc
bree, of the relief ship Thetis, pub
lished in the Kansas City Journal
brings out some additional facts of in.
terests in regard to Greely's condition
when discovered, and other facts rela-
ting to the party. He says: Hunger,
suffering, mental distress and the hone
~lessness begotten of abject despair, had
unhinged Lieut.. Greedy. and made him
irresponsible. He and the rest of 'em
seemed to think of nothing but some
thing to eat, and when not supplied
according to their cravings, they
did not hesitate to daal 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 q
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. Hum
ger and greed for something to eat
overcame all sentiment and every other
desire with him. None of the party
seemed to be overjoyed at the rescue,
except for the one reason they would
get something to eat. Is 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, n he
eyed the process with eagerness. Think
ing he would like first to hear of his
family, l told him how they had been
left well six weeks ago, and handed HIM
a picture of his wife and children taken
six weeks previously. He glanced at
the picture, glanced only, for he could
not keep his eyes off the steward and
the beet tea, and said nothing.
1.-THE doctor fed him at short inter
walls, but more was his constant cry. To
further illustrate how ravenous a man
can become, l noticed the doctor hand
him a thin piece of raw meat. He cut
off a 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 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 his APP
} petite. One day he remarked:
Gentlemen, as great an eater as l
3 seem, my wife used to say l was the
8 smallest she ever saw"
Then Lieut.. Greedy after a moments
. pause said very soberly and without
! any semblance of joking:
t People do not think enough about
eating, anyway. Hereafter l am going
/ TO give more time and thought to it,"
"Poor fellow, he did not sleep for
thirtv-six hours after he came aboard
the Thetis. The first thing he asked
= for was his bitters, and insisted upon
| having them, but was deprived of them
for a time. He then called on us to tell
s him the ews
o "What, " he said, "has taken place IN
+ three years? Tell me-"
"As a matter OF fact. the first thing,
of course, that rushed to our minds was
o the death of Garfield, and we told him
e of it."
t az know that" he said, and we ex-
IS claimed, how in the world did you
know"
g "Then it turned out" said Lieut.. Sc
bree, "that in a cache they had found
which had been made by Beebe
on the first unsuccessful effort to relieve
II the Greedy colony, were two dozen lem
uns, and around each of these ascrap OF
newspaper haG been wrapped,
and from these scraps the col
, onv had learned of Garfields
;e death and it was surprising too
it how many other things they had learned
i from these scraps of paper. They had
70 read and reread them. 1t afforded
1t them diversion. and to further divert
their minds, Lieut.. Greedy. as long Of
r, he was able, would lecture to the men,
They say his memory is perfectly won
re derful, and he says everything that ne
had ever read or heard returned to hin
wildly while in the arctic solitude"
Lieut.. Lockwood's death was very
sad. Weeks before he died he became
Ig uueer. The men first noticed, whe1
a. Lieut.. Greedy or others of the party
70 we're relating some experience to olvel'
: the minds of the suffering little baEt
v from the contemplation of the drearl
ness and hopelessness of their desola
f. ton. Lieut.. Lockwood would moroseIy
in sit by, pay no attention, bat suddenl,
interrupt by circulating:
l. Roast beef, mashed potatoes Of
or something of that kind"
IL ''He died a maniac. He it was who
g. went nearest the North pole, and was
in fact the sturdiest man of the com
n mand, though he was the second one
U.s. who died of starvation"
Ii Lieut. Greedy was a hard-looklnj
citizen when we found him. He ha(