Polar Pathways: Robert E. Peary's Arctic Expeditions
1893 - Gardens
Another view of Hopedale
“These gardens [of the missionaries] present a pitiful appearance. Just back of the village, amid a little clump of stunted, grey-bearded fir and spruce trees, are a series of small enclosures… Over the entrance of each of these enclosures is inscribed some Scripture name… and within the shelter of these fences are grown the potatoes, lettuce, rhubarb, horseradish, and other vegetables which supply the wants of the missionaries… the most touching place however, was the pleasure garden, if I may be allowed the term, a little enclosure around the sides of which ran a gravel walk, with two others intersecting it in the centre. At the intersection of these two walks is a little rough board shelter… the dreariest possible apology for a summer pavilion.” - Robert E. Peary, Northward over the Great Ice, published in 1898
"Hopedale" by Donald B. MacMillan. 1931, Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum Collections
