78 THE LAST VOYAGE OF THE KARLUK 
We sat down at 4:80 f. m. to a menu laid out and 
typewritten by McKinlay: 
“Such a bustle ensued” 
Mixed Pickles Sweet Pickles 
Oyster Soup 
Lobster 
Bear Steak 
Ox Tongue 
Potatoes Green Peas 
Asparagus and Cream Sauce 
Mince Pie Plum Pudding 
Mixed Nuts 
Tea Cake 
Strawberries 
“God Bless You, Merry Gentlemen; 
May Nothing You Dismay!” 
Murray produced a cake which had been given 
in Victoria to cut for this particular occasion and 
which he had kept carefully secreted. Dinner, 
which was a great credit to Bob, the cook, was fol¬ 
lowed by cigars and cigarettes and a concert on the 
Victrola which had been presented to the ship by 
Sir Richard McBride. We had records that played 
both classical and popular music, vocal and instru¬ 
mental, and we kept this up with singing, to a late 
hour. Malloch wrote a Christmas letter of many 
pages to his father, a letter which, alas, was des¬ 
tined never to be delivered. 
On Friday the twenty-sixth a crack in the ice 
made from the waist of the ship towards the stern, 
