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We know that Christmas at the
bottom of the world is In the
‘Antarctic midsummer, I have
jeaten cight Christmas dinners
south of the Antarctic Circle; two
of them within two days of each
other,

In 1928 we
were bucking
through the
ce of the Ross
Seca with the
bark - rigged,
‘wooden
ing ship, the
City of New
York, on the
western side, of
the 180th merid-

 

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hos lost. a day by so
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’ E, Byrd © Christmas Day

arrived we were
too busy fighting the ice pack
and getting around Icebergs to
celebrate.

ANOTHER CHRISTMAS DAY -

; But we had another Christmas
‘Day coming to us. By ‘going .to
the eastward that day we found
smoother ice; and in doing so
we crossed back over the Date
Line, the 180th. meridian, and
thus gained a day. Since, the
ice was smoother that Christmas
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iserved:a fine:dinner, Our scien-

, [tist, Taffy: Davies, took’ the. part

BROADWAY CAFE o : os

7 JPEN Cire “Day, 12 pom. 78. pam, es
0 “New. Year's Day 12 pm. — 9 pam,

“With all the traditional good will and

lof Santa Claus; and I gave my,
jadmiral’s unifori to Pvt. ‘Mo-

;Tency «we called) him. “Little

Byrd

REAR ADM, RICHARD FE. BYRD

salle it wild crowding of men on the

fo’e’s’le head in the rigging: The-

to hawl out everyone In sight,
especially myself and the other
Officers. It was a grand oc-
casion. co
THE BARRIER AT LAST
Suddenly, in the midst of our
celebration in the ward room,
Chief Mate Strom’s voice from
the crow’s nest—"Barrier on the
‘starboard bow’—fell with the
abrupt swiftness of Jong -awalted
news, There was.a clatter of
dinner dishes and a race of foot-
‘steps up the companionway and

thing we had sailed 11,000 miles
lo see was hefore our’ eyes,.a
far-flung reach of lifted. ice-—
the Barrie, 0 *

As we closed in-on this phe-
nomenon, which extended as far
as Our glasses could reach to the
cast and west, it appeared to be
a wall of ice‘ rising from. 100 to
200 fect up from the water. We
later found that this: enormous
sheet of Ice that was largely wa-
ter-borne was 500 miles east and
west and over 400’mlles north
iand south, and that it ayeraged
jin ‘thickness above..the water
from 150 to 200° feet, and we
knew ‘it would be. three, or four

water, — 2 .
jFaRsir AMERICANS |."

ther south’ that Christmas ‘Day
than any .Americans: had ever
been, and we were to be the first
Americans: to'land: anywhere on
{the continent.. We were destined
ito build eight villages ‘in Ant-
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miles in-area, about twice the
size of the United States. Wei
have since that day looked upon
some 4,000,000 square. miles of
that area. itherto not seen by
human heings.

Now scientists fram more than
40 nations are moving south in
thelr biggest ‘assault on the geo-
physical secrets of the Antarctic,
What they find may well prove
of inestimable value to mankind,

For us; it all started on that
Christmas Day in 1928,

CHRISTMAS WARNING

Writing in the Fourth.Century,
Gregory Nazianzen, archbishop
and poet, warned against .cele-
brating Christmas “with excess”
and protested against dancing,
and decorations of evergreens
and boughs which he described;
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‘Anglo-Saxons.
“Began Custom
OF Wassailing |

Wassailing! (protiouriced wos’: |:

ling) Js an‘*old English -Christ-
mas custom of going from door
to door singing. Many traditional
wassailing- ‘songs, though. not
strictly religious in, character,
are counted as Christmas carols.

The word comes from the Ang-.

lo-Saxon toast “weshal” meaning |.

“be in good health,” and the re-
ply was “drinkhail'—“drink good
health,” In olden .days house-

holders © entertained © wassailers |

with drinks from the wassail

bowl, a warm’ cheering . drink}

made. with ale or wing) flavored
with — spices, . sugar, toast and
roasted apples, .. nrc

One of the oldest English was-
sail’ songs runs; “The ‘roads are
very dirty, .my.:boots - are very
thin, I have a little’ pocket, to
put a pefiny.inte

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