At breakfast we all had letters from home and Christmas presents, which had been kept to be opened on that morning.

MacMillan was master of ceremonies and arranged the program of sports.

At two o'clock there were races on the ice-foot.

A seventy-five-yard course was laid out, and the ship's lanterns, about fifty of them, were arranged in two parallel rows, twenty feet apart.

These lanterns are similar to a railway brakeman's lantern, only larger.