Polar Pathways: Robert E. Peary's Arctic Expeditions
The White March- Badly Behaving Dogs
The dogs in the icy wind and snow
“At Cache camp… began our serious trouble
with our wild wolves, called by courtesy dogs. Restless under their new masters
and fighting constantly among themselves, these brutes gave us not a moment’s
peace. Hardly an hour passed when not at work that one or two did not manage
to break their harnesses or eat off their traces and free themselves, and sometimes
four or five would be loose at once... As Gibson said, you may talk
about lassoing wild steers in Texas, but it does not compare with rounding
up Eskimo dogs.” -
Robert E. Peary in Northward over the “Great Ice”, published
in 1898
"Dogs in harness, at rest" 1891, Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum Collections
