72 thought it great fun, and the children played practical jokes on one another with the smaller firecrackers. Tank topped the celebration by treating to fruit-cake and chocolate - which was unanimously voted the most delicious treat we had had in a long time. The boys were up till 3 o'clock A.M. I had the watch and_ was up the rest of the night. Thursday, January first, 1914. Everybody was sleepy this morning. Green and Tank did not get up until two or three p.m., and Doc and I turned in at ten thirty a.m. and slept until nearly four p.m. This was unusual for me, I seldom am able to sleep in the daytime. Mac and Er never do,-but the rest of the boys do not appear to have any difficulty. Yet I also felt sleepy, and had a headache, and so we got the New Year's dinner, which was a dandy good one with carbon roast, mock turtle soup, diced potatoes, green peas, cranberry sauce, mint sauce, plum pudding, fruits, nuts, champagne, grape-juice, and lots of similar delicacies. Tank put us all to shame by appearing in a spick and span civilian suit with white shirt and collar, with his side whiskers he resembled nothing so much as an English tourist; his attire certainly seemed strange and out of place. After dinner we had many games with the eskimoer. They seem to like the games we have