- hp ) coz T_T THE DAILY BRITISH WHIG Ne tt fattened este on Pr CaZrmzlrr> #Zrfors 0, OTE RIVET, LIE? SOT Ir ip Fr FB CRIP Firs Christmas Dinner With Christopher Columbus On the | to Spain as a curiosity. { of cassava, a stew of parrots cooked | Island of Haiti--The First Christmas of the May- : flower Pilgrims --A Jolly Festival. Copyright, 1919. The International Syndicate, HE first Christmas celebrated in America was on the he banquet on that historic oc- casion was Christopher Columbus. His host was a native chieftain. Columbus had arrived in October, 1492, at Watkins Island, in the Ba- hamas, where he made his first land- ing in the New World." The island scription 'he gave of it, most of its interior being occupied by a large lagoon. Thence he sailed to the north coast of Cuba, which he supposed to be part of the mainland of Asia, and after exploring the bays and river ouths, he sent an expedition Inland I treat with the Great Khan of Tar- tary. From Cuba he crossed to Haitl, with fis flagship, the Santa Maria, and one jsland of! Haiti, and the principal guest at] { from i gave for Columbus and his men an | parent that she would be a Fartunately the nat They thought that come beyond total loss. ives were friend- strangers sky the had from the Guacangari, the local chieftain, actu-| {ally shed tears when he learned of | the shipwreck, and sent 100 canoes i to help unload the San a Maria. Even | the Spars were unshipped and car- ito steal anything. Columbus wrote {in his logbook: "In mo part of Cas- { tile could things be left about in such | safety, without the loss of so much {as a leather strap." Banguet On Christmas Day The shipwreck occurred on Christ~ mas Eve, Next day---possibly with {the idea of distracting their minds the misfortune -- Guacangari a { ried 8 t i { is recognizable today from the de-|™*® ashore, no attempt being made samples of which {in an earthen which Columbus | he asked for the | {as rpot™), ch that "pepr {liked so m recipe. [he could not the med? Spaniards, howe be oO partake of jot an serpent," which {broiled whole over a quick fire on a! hardwood gridiron. This was the ig-| wana, which their descendants learned to relish as a great delicacy, its flesh {resembling chicken, ! When the native notables present | this Christmas dinner had eaten! their they did something alto- | gether extraordinary. Producing | smallsrolls of dried leaves, they light- | ed ome end, drawing the smoke into { their mouths and blowing Others burned leaves of the kind in a sort of pipe with Stems, the latter being inserted in the hdstrils. Thus was® given to' the! ! white man his first opportunity to see! pers "ugl was | out. ! same | two | of his caravels, the Nina, leaving the | enormous feast, which that navigator! [°P3CC0 used: but the Spaniards would | other caravel, the Pinta, behind. Off Capé Haitlen his expedition met with its first great misfortune; the Santa iby comely Indian damesels, and -in-| jpluded many, wholly Though fWevThere was a kind of bread made Maria running tn the night upon a reef. where she stuck. weather was calm, it soon became ap-|{from an unfamiliar grain mA -- described in writing as the most elab- orate he ever attended. It was served novel dishes, called en a ot i i -- have none of it | Clothes Unfashionable In Haiti Guscangart-wore at the Banquet a costume consitsing of a shirt and a! pair of gloves, which Columbus had | iglven him. All the rest of the natives | -- asm: I : the dis- | hed guest took back with him Also a bread | pot, and a mysterious | | a1 : ; f= {dish (known today in the West Indies i : i tian t 51 SE were unclad. barring a few golden] lan method of dealing with the hea- it went CBr Dosen Camels A ry = Co Cruse ss CEE re struck thelr and other ornaments of honor Wiha most was , both sexes being nude and} It indeed. | days before Christmas. that the Pil. A A a "If they | aFims. arrived at Plymouth on board|Dhe tolde them that it was against his d They were 100 in| conscienee that they sholde play while upashamed. The climate, made clothing a superfiuity wore ciothes." he wrote, "they would | be almost as white as the people of! Spain.™ they were suntanned, The Haitian chieftain bestowed rich | ing a ceremoni®! belt, to which was attached a wooden mask with "two | large ears and tongue and nose of | beaten gold." In short, He left noth<| {ing undone that cowld testify to his | | hospitable feelings and friendliness. | But the navigator was no sentimen- falist. He had come across the At- j lantie to seek gold, lang. or what-| ever else might represent wealth. The kindly natives, from his viewpoint, | wore "easy marks," inviting enslave- | at worke, heard a noyse of Indians. | in ment. To Queén Isabella he wrote: | { "They have no arms and are naked; | 1,000 of them could not face three | Christians; and so they are suitable to be governed and made to work and sow and build villages." Later on, the Spaniards '(their gratitude to Guacangari by mur- {dering him, after robbing him of all then in those days. Christmas With The Pilgrims 1620, was in December, of the. Mayflower, number, and for some weeks they hag | Others worked. 3 s He allowad for the fact that | salled- along a desolate and savage | Matter to keep Christmas, they must " |coast in search of a suitable place! keep to their houses. for the establishment of a colony. An | gifts upon Columbus. ne of them be- | exploring party having reported fa-| vonably dropped there, "Monday, the Christmas Day," Pilgrims, upon Plymouth, her 25th imber, few | day. writes one of she | "anybody found observing, "we be-|stinence from labor, feasting, or any gan fo erect the first house for com-| other way, on use. We went on shore to fell Day William Bradford, some to saw and some to|5 shillings." TP SHI POS + 7 rp Le FIORE. XE master caused us to have some beere™ Naughty, naughty! What should we Puritans of today think of that? In the nex! year the struggling col- {ony was strengthened by the arrival] of another vessel, the Fortune. which brought thirty-five sturdy young Eng- lishmen. % These young chaps seem t(o have had too much red blood in thelr veins to find social conditions at Plymouth - | altogether to their liking. William {| Bradford writes: "We had a colde Christmas, Ye Governor calied them jout to worke, but most of yo new ~---- | he possessed---such being the Chris- | company excused themselves and said against their sonscience to | worke on that day, When ye others Tame home at even from their worke, he found them on ye strest at play. pitching bar and throwing bail. So they made it a Frowned Upon Christmas No sympathy was felt by the stern vessel land ascetic Puritans for "ye ungodlie | meal. anchor in the Barber | pleasures' of the Englis th church and its festivals. In' 1669 the General being Court of Massachuseits enacted that by ab- any such day as Christmas shall pay for every such offense Christrngs, in fact, was Carry; so no man rested all that day. | outlawed: and in Cennecticuyt on that But toward night some, as which caused they were day the law strictly forbade the mak- g of mince ples or playing upon any and picturesqus disguise tramped from us all to go to our| musical instrument except the drum. muskets; but we heard no firther, 50 | the Jewsharp and the trumpet, we came aboord againe, and left some | twentie to keep guard." There seems to have been a mild {arrival of the suggestion of appropriate Overland 4 Touring. $1195; Rosduer, | © $1195; Coupe, $1845, Sedan, $1195. Prices, Toronto, War Tux included. festivity. | thir plump wives and cheer showed | however; for it is further recorded by | il A AA A A A AAA A A Ang it had extra [purposes can make it. How different with the jovial Dutch fcolonists who, four years after the Mayflower, mi, A { the same historian that "at night the 1 farm {such bringer of good things being { accompantsd by another," atiired to | represent the wicked Belsnickel, an brought | imp clad In skins and armed with & ul fam-| huge whip to frighten children whe en to settle in the New Nether- | had been naughty : St LS rar it NN aN tl lands! Kerstrydt (Christmas) was first and foremost of all the'r festivals Indeed, If was twice a festival with them, becruse ft was also Landing { Day--the date on which, in 163%, tke first large party of them arrived. : ~The first Christinas colebration oa Manhattan Island (which the Dulce had meanwhile byught from the In- dians) was in 1625, But among those people the preparations customarily began at least sight weeks in ad- vance. For one thing. there were huge fruit cakes asd puddings to be made ready. of > On Christmas Eve the master of (he house went, cajdle in hand, through each bara and outbuilding, to whis- per to every living ereaturs, from cat-: tie and horses to pigeons and pigs. the joyful news that the Christ child was coming. And on the great dav thers was a love feast in the chureh. j when the women, in caps and aprons | freshly laundered and starched, car- ried ardund inviting trays of pretzels and shining mugs of scalding coffes. Christmas Dinner And, oh! the dinpef. 'A sumptuous Turkeys, chickens, and geene ---anough six times over for everybody who sat down. But an important and mogt attractive item, there was aise huge "cheese" compounded of pork" and "molasses after a Dutch recipe possibix of pre-historle origin. 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