ARCTIC FESTIVITIES 95 



invite all our faithful natives to a dinner cooked by us and 

 served at our table with our dishes. I thought it would be as 

 much fun for us to sec them eat with knife, fork, and spoon 

 as it would be for them to do it. 



While I was preparing the dinner, most of the boys went 

 out for a walk, "to get a good appetite," they said. After the 

 table was set, Astrup placed a very pretty and cleverly de- 

 signed menu-card at each plate. Each card was especially 

 appropriate to the one for whom it was intended. 



At 4.30 P. M. we all sat down to our " Merry Christmas." 

 The dinner consisted of 



Salmon a la can. 



Rabbit-pie with green peas. 



Venison with cranberry sauce. 



Corn and tomatoes. 



Plum-pudding with brandy sauce. 



Apricot-pie. 



Pears. 



Candy, nuts, raisins. 



Coffee. 



We arose from the table at half-past seven, all voting this to 

 have been the jolliest Christmas dinner ever eaten in the 

 Arctic regions. After Matt had cleared everything away, the 

 table was set again, and the Eskimos were called in. Ikwa 

 and his family sent regrets, as they had just returned from a 

 visit to Keati, and were too tired to put on "full dress " for a 

 dinner-party. We therefore had only two of our seamstresses, 



