Polar Pathways: Robert E. Peary's Arctic Expeditions

Tea has always played an important role in arctic meals,
as seen in this 1923-1925 image from Donald MacMillan's voyage.

“We were exhausted with the arduous traveling, and weak and hungry from our previous continually scant diet of tea and biscuit. The last unpleasant sensation was partially ameliorated by the recourse of a dogfood meat. True, this was a frozen mixture of walrus meat, blubber, hair, sand, and various other foreign substances, but it “went” just the same, and the fact that the meat was “high” and the blubber more or less rancid caused no complaint from the parties most interested.” - Robert E. Peary in Northward over the “Great Ice”, published in 1898

"Making Tea on the Greenland Ice Cap" by Donald B. MacMillan, 1923-1925, Peary MacMillan Arctic Museum Collections

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