501 one day's supply of seal fat for five days before yesterday. H.C.P. gave him some engine oil to help him out and I was going to loan Dretlisk a primus stove, when the old man came in from Cape York with seal fat and meat. We had quite a Christmas dinner this afternoon, as follows: canned roast beef, de-hydro potatoes, canned tomatoes, canned corn, canned beets, olives, bread, butter, plum duff with prune sauce, and Danish "mrost" (a kind of cider) as a beverage. We all thought much of home, at any rate I know that I did, and we wished that our friends could at least know that we were safe and well to-day, if not happy. I broached two of our boxes of candy for all the crew as well as ourselves. Ekblaw took some nuts down to the forecastle with my sanction.