AN ARCTIC CHRISTMAS.
Christmas Day spent in darkness, and a Christmas dinner without. turkey and plum pudding! How,- could - possibly 'make merry under : such circumstances P ' Yet. one of the Polar , expeditions which wintered in the Arctic regions a few years ago managed to enjoy the Christmas festival, though it was spent in: so.' desolate- a spot: and in the depth of the loiig Polar night. The Christmas dinner consisted:: of "fiske-gratin ,(a baked ' dish, offish, flour, eggs, and butter), a Baddle of beef, green peas, asparagus, stewed cloud. berries and rice,. and coffee and :cakes." Captain Svedrup, in command of the,expedition, writes in his narrative; ■ "When the Christmas tree was brought in everybody was quite silent for a moment. As it stood there,.with its glittering gold and silver tinsel and its red and white candles in the midst, of our darkness, it seemed to be a greeting' from home and from above. •It seemed as if we were being told that there was still life and that'the light was not really gone. We thought that we were sitting amid our dear ones and could take them by the hand. It was as if happy thoughts had been sent to us, and then we. dad to shout for joy and -make more noise • than' the -wolves howling . outside in tho : Snow."—" The ' Christian Globe,' Christmas Hamper." :
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Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 698, 24 December 1909, Page 5
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226AN ARCTIC CHRISTMAS. Dominion, Volume 3, Issue 698, 24 December 1909, Page 5
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