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After going into the matter thoroughly, it was decided to change the solar oil we had on board for refined petroleum. Through the courtesy of the West of Norway Petroleum Company, we got this done on very favourable terms at the company's storage dock in Skaalevik. This was troublesome work, but it paid in the future. Our German shipmate, the oceanographer Schroer, left us at Bergen.
Schroer, and the proprietor of the Oyster Cellar at Christiania, Mr. Ditlev-Hansen. Then we took our seats round the table, which groaned beneath Lindström's masterpieces in the culinary art. I slipped behind the curtain of my cabin for an instant, and set the gramophone going. Herold sang us "Glade Jul."
The tree was an artificial one, but so perfectly imitated that it might have come straight from the forest. This was also a present from Mrs. Schroer. Then came the distribution of Christmas presents. Among the many kind friends who had thought of us I must mention the Ladies' Committees in Horten and Fredrikstad, and the telephone employées of Christiania.
"English Character," by Professor Arnold Schröer. "England and We," by Dr. J. Riessner, President of the Hanseatic League. "How England prevented an Understanding with Germany," by Professor Th. Schiemann. "God Punish England," published by Simplicissimus. "Perfidious Albion," by Alfred Geiser. "Our Enemies among Themselves," Caricatures from 1792-1900 collected by Dr. Paul Weiglin.
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