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Many of our friends at home feared that we were 

 starving, but this was the menu served upon our fourth 

 Thanksgiving Day in the Arctic : 



Vegetable soup 



Roast haunch of caribou — Stuffing with brown gravy 



Mashed potatoes String-beans 



Chocolate frosted cake Fruit cake 



Squash pie Mince pie 



Doughnuts 



Coffee Punch 



After our own dinner, seventeen Eskimos were fed 

 until they yelled, "Enough!" The stomach of little 

 nine-year-old Megishoo stuck out hard and round as 

 that of a young Filipino, ' 



With the cry of, "Sledges coming!" on December 7th, 

 came the surprise of the year. "A big ship frozen in the 

 ice at Umanak!" We ripped off eagerly the envelopes 

 of the letters from Ekblaw and Hunt to learn the par- 

 ticulars. The ship proved to be the Danmark, from 

 Copenhagen, in charter by the American Museum to 

 proceed to Etah from South Greenland to convey the 

 members and collections of the expedition to Sydney, 

 Cape Breton. 



Because of the unfavorable ice conditions, due to the 

 lateness of the season (September 23d), the ship had 

 been unable to proceed beyond Umanak, and had gone 

 into winter quarters. Through carelessness or misunder- 

 standing, our notification of her arrival had been de- 

 layed by at least a month. 



The relief naturally expected that upon receipt of 

 the news of its arrival we would gladly abandon our 



