Polar Pathways: Robert E. Peary's Arctic Expeditions
1906- Greenland Coast: Wearily Westward
“Wearily we started westward to regain the Roosevelt and I kept an Eskimo constantly scouting the shore abreast of our line march, looking for hare, but musk-oxen were to be our salvation and instead of setting an air-line course for the north end of Britannia Island on the route which I had followed in 1900, I determined to go straight for the north end of Ellison Island and thence round the southern end of Britannia Island through the passage between it and mainland, and from there along the coast to Cape May and Cape Bryant, as I felt satisfied that on Nares Island and in the neighbourhood of Cape May we should find musk-oxen.” - Robert E. Peary in Nearest the Pole, published in 1907
