Polar Pathways: Robert E. Peary's Arctic Expeditions
1898 to Fort Conger- Cape D'Urville : As If on Sand
A dog team struggles through the thick snow
“December 29th, I started from Cape Lawrence with light sledges for Fort Conger, hoping to make the distance in five days. The first march from Cape Lawrence the ice foot was fairly good, though an inch or two of efflorescence made the sledges drag as if on sand.” - Robert E. Peary in Nearest the Pole, published in 1907
"Dog teams on ice", Peary-MacMillan Arctic Museum Collections
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