Polar Pathways: Robert E. Peary's Arctic Expeditions

A dog team from earlier in the expedition

"After some hours the sledges caught up with me. The dogs were so active that morning, after their day's rest, that I was frequently obliged to sit on a sledge for a few minutes or else run to keep up with them, which I did not care to do just yet. Our course was nearly, as the crow flies, due north, across floe after floe, pressure ridge after pressure ridge, headed straight for some hummock or pinnacle of ice which I had lined in with my compass... In this way we traveled for ten hours without stopping, covering, I felt sure, thirty miles, though, to be conservative, I called it twenty-five. " - Robert E. Peary in The North Pole, published in 1910

"Two sledge teams ready to march (Eskimo type sledge)" by Donald B. MacMillan, Peaty-MacMillan Arctic Museum Collections

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